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• Australia’s biggest industrial polluter receives millions in carbon credits despite rising emissions

  20-04-2025 17:00 via theguardian.com
  Safeguard mechanism revamp leads to overall emissions fall but 70% of coal and gas facilities covered by scheme increased direct pollutionGet Guardian Australia environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as an emailAustralia’s biggest industrial climate polluter – Chevron’s Gorgon gas export plant in Western Australia – received the equivalent of millions of dollars in carbon credits from the federal government last year, despite increasing its emissions.The
  
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• ‘Last chance saloon’: the scramble to save Dorset’s vanishing Purbeck puffins

  20-04-2025 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Numbers have plummeted in recent years, but the problem is no one really knows why nesting pairs fail to rear youngReaching the vantage point is a tricky business.First, there’s a hop across a fence into Scratch Arse quarry – the stone workers used to find it such a cramped space to work in that their backsides would bump into the rock face. Then, a tiptoe through the slopes of early spider orchids and wild cabbage before a dizzying scramble down to the edge of the cliff. Continue re
  
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• ‘My daughter just loves you’: stars of One Zoo Three have high hopes for Hertfordshire

  20-04-2025 15:07 via theguardian.com
  Aaron, Tyler and Cam Whitnall aim to make family-owned zoo a conservation leader ‘up there with Chester’Outside the enclosure, eager visitors jostle for a glimpse of the rare Asiatic lions Sahee and Sonika, Hertfordshire Zoo’s newest residents. The beasts yawn imperiously in the sun, every twitch of their tails sparking an excited murmur.But when Aaron, Tyler and Cam Whitnall are spotted, the animals are instantly forgotten. The stars of children’s BBC programme One Zoo T
  
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• Readers reply: Do all wind turbines rotate in the same direction? If so, why?

  20-04-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsDo all wind turbines rotate in the same direction? If so, why? Rab Spence, by emailSend new questions to [email protected]. Continue reading...
  
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• Fifteen years after Deepwater Horizon, Trump is setting the stage for disaster | Terry Garcia

  20-04-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  Cuts to science, environmental and safety agencies are a rejection of hard-won knowledge gained from studying the disaster that occurred 15 years agoLast month, I joined nearly 500 former and current employees of National Geographic, where I was executive vice-president and chief science and exploration officer for 17 years, urging the institution to take a public stance against the Trump administration’s reckless attacks on science. Our letter pointed out that the programs being dismantle
  
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• ‘Cañahua chose me’: can an ancient relative of quinoa revive rural Bolivia’s economy?

  20-04-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The effects of the climate crisis and a lack of jobs are driving young people away from the Andean highlands but a long-shunned crop could stem the tideFew young people remain in Bolivia’s highland plateau, the Altiplano. The rising frequency and severity of extreme weather events, such as drought and frost, have reduced their economic prospects and migration has accelerated as the environment becomes more unpredictable.“The climate isn’t like it used to be,” says Nico Ma
  
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• Melting glaciers will harm us all. Yet still we watch, unmoved | Robin McKie

  20-04-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  The degradation of the Arctic tundra has triggered a terrible chain reaction that can only lead to greater mayhemThe problems that now afflict attempts to establish a military presence in the far north of Canada and Greenland provide timely warnings about the miseries that lie ahead for the rest of the planet as global warming continues its remorseless spread.The Arctic has suffered especially early impacts because temperatures here are rising faster than in any other part of our planet. Crucial
  
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• British Steel must now join the modern economy, not be a prisoner of the old | Will Hutton

  20-04-2025 10:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Lack of investment and vision has dogged UK industry, while China has literally forged aheadThe fate of incoming Labour business and industry secretaries seems to be to launch emergency rescue packages for industries that would otherwise face imminent closure.Witness Jonathan Reynolds at last Saturday’s extraordinary parliamentary recall arguing for the legal right to take over the running of British Steel from its Chinese owner, Jingye, in order to save up to 3,500 jobs and Britain’
  
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• Oldest serving US astronaut returns to Earth on 70th birthday

  20-04-2025 06:05 via bbc.com
  A capsule with Don Pettit and his two Russian crewmates lands in Kazakhstan after a space station mission.
  
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