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• An uncertain future for agricultural students at Black colleges after Trump cuts: ‘a clear attack’

  27-02-2025 23:06 via theguardian.com
  
  The 1890 National Scholars program gives full rides to HBCU students in fields like botany, forestry and food safetyDr Marcus Bernard was shocked to learn last week that the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) had suspended the 1890 National Scholars program that funds undergraduate students’ education in agriculture or related fields at about 20 historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).Bernard is dean of the college of agriculture, health and natural resources at one of those
  
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• BBC Inside Science

  27-02-2025 18:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Google has launched a new AI tool called Co-Scientist. How good is it?
  
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• Man's brain turned to glass by hot Vesuvius ash cloud

  27-02-2025 17:02 via bbc.com
  
  The pea-sized brain was found in the skull of a 20-year-old man killed in the volcanic eruption.
  
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• ‘It’s been a lifesaver’: millions risk going hungry as Republicans propose slashing food stamps

  27-02-2025 16:00 via theguardian.com
  Snap helps more than 42 million people, and is considered the country’s most effective tool to fight hungerDuring a recent grocery store visit, Audrey Gwenyth spent $159.01 on items such as eggs, Greek yogurt, edamame snaps, bagels, chia seeds, brownie mix, oatmeal, milk, cilantro rice and pork sausage. The entire bill was paid via her electronic benefit transfer, or EBT, card, which is how recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or Snap, pay for groceries at participa
  
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• More than 100,000 African seeds put in Svalbard vault for safekeeping

  27-02-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Seeds of 177 species from across Africa to be stored in Norway to preserve crop diversity in case of disasterMore than 100,000 seeds from across Africa have been deposited in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, the world’s repository for specimens intended to preserve crop diversity in the event of disaster.Among the latest additions are seeds critical to building climate resilience, such as the tree Faidherbia albida, which turns nitrogen into ammonia and nitrates, and Cordia africana, the Su
  
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• ‘People’s commission’ to examine future of water industry in England and Wales

  27-02-2025 14:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Inquiry set up by academics and campaigners to rival ‘too limited’ government-established commissionA “people’s commission” on the future of the water industry will travel across England and Wales taking evidence from the public and environmental campaign groups fighting sewage pollution.Academics and environmental campaigners who were central to exposing the routine dumping of raw sewage into rivers by water companies have set up the inquiry to rival the government
  
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• ‘I was causing harm’: author Helen Jukes on motherhood and our polluted bodies

  27-02-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  In her latest book, Mother Animal, the writer gives a personal account of the impact of ‘forever chemicals’ on her and her child during and after pregnancyWhen Helen Jukes told her friends she was writing about motherhood and pollution, they advised her against it and warned she might make pregnant people more anxious than they already were. But she disagreed. Mother Animal, a personal account of Jukes’ pregnancy and early years of motherhood, details her growing realisation of
  
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• ‘We used to think the ice was eternal’: Colombia looks to a future without glaciers

  27-02-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  In Sierra Nevada del Cocuy, people have watched the ice fields turn to exposed rock and experts predict these vital water sources could be lost in 30 yearsWords and photographs by Euan Wallace in the Sierra Nevada del Cocuy, ColombiaAt an altitude of 4,200 metres in the Sierra Nevada del Cocuy, Colombia, Edilsa Ibañéz Ibañéz lowers a cupped hand into the water of a glacial stream. A local guide and mountaineer, she has grown up drinking water that runs down from the s
  
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• Country diary: Daffodil buds have appeared out of a memory of spring | Paul Evans

  27-02-2025 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  The Marches, Shropshire: On a windswept day with wild energy in the skies, something is happening out on the heathSpectral rain dogs chase through the wind across Old Racecourse Common above Oswestry. So much energy in the sky, so much fractured sunlight. Sheltered by a tangle of goat willow around North Common Pond, invisible birds set up a pod of sound made from scores of individual tweeps. A grunt may come from a hermit moorhen.The pond surface, silvered and sepia, ripples with raindrops
  
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