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• Street where residents are terrified of flooding to be bulldozed

  02-02-2026 15:24 via bbc.com
  Homes on a street at severe risk of flooding will be bought by a local council.
  
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• Race to contain suspected bird flu outbreak among Thames Valley swans

  02-02-2026 13:59
  Volunteer workers say increasing case numbers and dozens of dead birds raise fears spread is wider than recordedMembers of the public and charity volunteers are working to contain a suspected outbreak of bird flu among swans in the Thames Valley, amid signs that confirmed cases are continuing to rise.Since October, 324 cases of bird flu in swans have been recorded by the Animal and Plant Health Agency (Apha), which is sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). O
  
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• Is Trump winning or losing his war on offshore wind power?

  02-02-2026 13:30
  The US president tried to kill offshore wind projects – now four are back under constructionConstruction has resumed on four offshore wind mega-projects after they survived a near fatal attack by Donald Trump’s administration thanks to rulings by federal judges. These are being seen as victories for clean energy amid a wider war being waged on it by the Trump administration.The wind farms are considered critical by grid planners as America faces an energy affordability crisis. Togeth
  
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• Weather tracker: Cyclone Fytia in Madagascar kills several people and floods homes

  02-02-2026 13:25
  Island’s first tropical storm of season may bring 150mm of rain – meanwhile, eastern Europe freezes with possible night-time lows of -30CAt least three people have died and nearly 30,000 people have been affected by flooding after Madagascar’s first tropical storm of the season hit over the weekend.Tropical Cyclone Fytia formed to the north-west of Madagascar over the northern Mozambique Channel on Thursday. Continue reading...
  
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• Is tyre pollution causing mass deaths in vulnerable salmon populations?

  02-02-2026 13:00
  A US judge will decide if, as research suggests, a chemical tyre additive is harming endangered fish speciesLast week, a district judge in San Francisco, California, presided over a three-day trial brought by west coast fishers and conservationists against US tyre companies. The fishers allege that a chemical additive used in tyres is polluting rivers and waterways, killing coho salmon and other fish. If successful, the case could have implications far beyond the United States. Continue reading.
  
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• ‘Nothing is sacred to them’: the race to save rare plants as Russian troops advance

  02-02-2026 10:00
  With some of Ukraine’s most valuable biodiversity sites and science facilities under occupation, experts at Sofiyivka Park in Uman are struggling to preserve the country’s natural historyIn the basement laboratory of the National Dendrological Park Sofiyivka, Larisa Kolder tends to dozens of specimens of Moehringia hypanica between power outages. Just months earlier, she and her team at this microclonal plant propagation laboratory in Uman, Ukraine, received 23 seeds of the rare flow
  
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• Country diary: A dramatic day in the grip of Storm Chandra | Sara Hudston

  02-02-2026 06:30
  Bridport, Dorset: Paths became streams and new islands appeared as the River Brit burst its banksWe were warned that rain was coming – and so it did, barrelling down all night, falling through the darkness on to ground that was already saturated. By the time it was light, the rivers through Bridport had risen and spread across the floodplain, splicing into a broad, brown rope of water twisting to the harbour at West Bay.Contemptuous of its banks, the River Brit was running noisily across m
  
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