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• ‘Freedom is a city where you can breathe’: four experts on Europe’s most liveable major cities

  24-12-2025 16:23 via theguardian.com
  From Copenhagen’s cycle lanes and Vienna’s shared parks to Barcelona and London’s unfulfilled potential, better living is close at handThe angry rumble of a speeding SUV. The metallic smog of backlogged traffic. The aching heat of sun-dried neighbourhoods baking in an oven of concrete and asphalt.For most people, the mundane threats that plague our environments are likely to annoy more than they spark dread. But for scientists who know just how dangerous our surroundings can be
  
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• ‘Freedom is a city where you can breathe’: four experts on Europe’s most liveable capitals

  24-12-2025 16:23 via theguardian.com
  From Copenhagen’s cycle lanes and Vienna’s shared parks to Barcelona and London’s unfulfilled potential, better living is close at handThe angry rumble of a speeding SUV. The metallic smog of backlogged traffic. The aching heat of sun-dried neighbourhoods baking in an oven of concrete and asphalt.For most people, the mundane threats that plague our environments are likely to annoy more than they spark dread. But for scientists who know just how dangerous our surroundings can be
  
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• White Christmas ‘unlikely’ but health alert issued amid falling UK temperatures

  24-12-2025 15:05 via theguardian.com
  Christmas Day expected to be dry and bright, with low temperature warnings posing greater risk to vulnerable peopleChristmas Day will bring bright weather in much of the UK, but a cold health alert has been issued warning of a “greater risk to life of vulnerable people”.While the prospect of a white Christmas is “highly unlikely”, according to forecasters, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has issued a yellow cold health alert from 6pm on Christmas Day to noon on 27 D
  
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• Country diary: A winter walk means only one thing – mud | Man in the Woods

  24-12-2025 06:30 via theguardian.com
  Dursley, Gloucestershire: We have to embrace these darker months and get outside, but there’s also only so much wind and sludge I can takeWinter is tiring. The footpath is a gully of slop, and each step forwards is a little slip backwards. The north-facing slope was OK – the frost hadn’t been thawed by the sun, and crunchy ground is better than slippy ground. But the rest of Gloucestershire has turned into slurry.It’s just as well that I enjoy it; I do
  
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• Crayfish, weevils and fungi released in UK to tackle invasive species such as Japanese knotweed

  24-12-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  Scientists working for government breed biological control agents in lab to take on species choking native wildlifeCrayfish, weevils and fungi are being released into the environment in order to tackle invasive species across Britain.Scientists working for the government have been breeding species in labs to set them loose into the wild to take on Japanese knotweed, signal crayfish and Himalayan balsam, and other species that choke out native plants and wildlife. Continue reading...
  
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• Barracuda, grouper, tuna – and seaweed: Madagascar’s fishers forced to find new ways to survive

  24-12-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  Seaweed has become a key cash crop as climate change and industrial trawling test the resilient culture of the semi-nomadic Vezo peopleAlong Madagascar’s south-west coast, the Vezo people, who have fished the Mozambique Channel for countless generations, are defined by a way of life sustained by the sea. Yet climate change and industrial exploitation are pushing this ocean-based culture to its limits.Coastal villages around Toliara, a city in southern Madagascar, host tens of thousands of
  
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