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Country diary: Lambing would be almost impossible without this super crook | Andrea Meanwell
via theguardian.comTebay, Cumbria: It’s been a tricky season, especially with the wet start to the year, but this remarkable device changes everythingIn his book The Hill Shepherd, written in 1977, Edward Hart says that “the hill shepherd works effectively with the very minimum of equipment”. I was thinking about this quote as I laced my Gore-Tex boots and pulled on my hat for another day of lambing outdoors.There are three bits of equipment that I need with me each day at lambing time – my -
‘We have to be all things to our children’: how a school made sure pupils had time to play
via theguardian.comBrighton primary has worked with organisation to provide better quality time outsideChildren deprived of outdoor play at higher risk of obesity, say doctorsEvery Friday morning Damien Jordan can be seen walking back on forth in the local park, staring at the grass. He’s checking for dog mess and drugs paraphernalia; in the next 10 minutes 30 or so of the pupils of Fairlight primary in Brighton will hit the park for their weekly football practice.With a playground that measures just 800m2 a -
How a Brighton school head tackles challenge of lack of play space for pupils
via theguardian.comFairlight primary school has worked with organisation to provide better quality playEvery Friday morning Damien Jordan can be seen walking back on forth in the local park, staring at the grass. He’s checking for dog mess and drug paraphernalia; in the next 10 minutes 30 or so of the pupils of Fairlight primary in Brighton will hit the park for their weekly football practice.With a playground that measures just 800m2 and more than 400 children, there is no room for sports on the school grou -
Alarming lack of access to green space fuelling UK child obesity crisis, doctors warn
via theguardian.comExclusive: Medics say children kept from enjoying outdoor play at higher risk of developing lifelong health problemsHow a Brighton headteacher tackles the lack of green spaceDoctors have warned that a “truly alarming” lack of access to outdoor space at schools is exacerbating Britain’s child obesity crisis.Child obesity is already a significant public health problem. In England, one in three children are leaving primary school overweight or obese and face a higher risk of serio -
Indian engineers warn of prolonged blackouts amid searing heatwave
via theguardian.comIncreasing use of fans, air coolers and air conditioners is placing ‘serious’ strain on grid in north of countryEngineers in India have warned of the possibility of prolonged power outages in the north, where a heatwave has brought misery for millions of people.Demand for electricity has soared due to fans, air coolers and air conditioners being run constantly, placing a strain on the grid in Delhi and elsewhere in the north. Manufacturers of air conditioners and air coolers report s -
How Britain’s oldest animal welfare charity became a byword for cruelty on an industrial scale | George Monbiot
via theguardian.comAs it celebrates its 200th birthday, the RSPCA has lost its way - and is helping endorse indefensible abuse in factory farmsHow does it happen? How does an organisation end up doing the opposite of what it was established to do? This month marks the 200th anniversary of the foundation of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: the world’s oldest animal welfare organisation. I wonder what there is to celebrate.If you mistreat your dog or cat or horse or rabbit, you can e -
From Silicon Valley to Silicon Savannah: climate expert Patrick Verkooijen on why this is Africa’s century
via theguardian.comThe University of Nairobi’s new chancellor says the continent has vast potential – but to realise the promise of AI and green jobs, rich countries must honour their commitmentsAfrica has all the potential to meet pressing climate challenges with innovative solutions, according to one of the world’s renowned environmentalists. With its vast natural capital and youthful population, “this is Africa’s century,” according to Prof Patrick Verkooijen, chief executive -
‘A distressing reality’: our beautiful planet under threat – in pictures
via theguardian.comStark images of coal markets, coastal cleanups and a photographer who burns her own work all feature in this year’s Earth Photo awards Continue reading... -
‘Your plastic is here’: how Easter Island copes with 500 pieces of rubbish an hour washing ashore
via theguardian.comOne of the world’s most remote populations must deal with a flood of multinational plastic, much of it tossed overboard by the factory fishing ships hoovering up sealife just offshorePhotographs by Akira FranklinFrom a distance, the colourful beach at Ovahe seems a postcard-perfect mosaic of natural beauty. Craggy volcanic boulders, pockmarked from bubbling lava, jut from the sand, garnished by a necklace of pastel-coloured corals and seashells pounded to pieces by the wild, crashing surf. -
Plantwatch: the trees that synchronise reproduction around summer solstice
via theguardian.comBeech trees across Europe coordinate their seed production each year even over vast distances and climatesThe summer solstice triggers a remarkable phenomenon in beech trees. All across Europe the beech trees synchronise their reproduction at the solstice, even over vast distances and climates.The solstice has the longest hours of daylight of the year, and an international research team discovered that the day after the solstice all the beech trees become acutely sensitive to temperature, trigge -
Country diary: A wild place that should be treasured, not bulldozed | Mark Cocker
via theguardian.comMacclesfield, Cheshire: Such biodiversity packed into Danes Moss, with micro moths, groundhoppers and countless other species – and yet it is under acute threatOur field club recently visited this area of wild ground on the edge of town called Danes Moss. The trip was inspired by local naturalists who have logged more than 1,600 plant and animal species there in short order.That urgency to record its wildlife has been driven, in turn, by Cheshire East council, which has earm -
A cat: ‘They smoked pipes, played dice’ | Helen Sullivan
via theguardian.comIn more than one image from 1900s Japan, they look hungoverGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailWe had gone to Japan, we told our daughter, to get her a maneki-neko: the good luck or beckoning cat. She is almost three. She would stay home with my mother, her grandmother. There is a maneki-neko that lives at the till of a manicure shop near our house, and she likes to stop and greet it. Japanese folklore has cats for many things, and we were grateful for this one. Before we left, we wrote l -
Indoors at breaktime: the school in a London office block
via theguardian.comGroup that runs Oasis Academy South Bank warns councils prioritise private housing over space for children to breatheOasis Academy South Bank in Waterloo sits in a densely built-up corner of south London – so densely that the only space found for the school was in a recommissioned office block. There is no playground, no sports pitch, nowhere to play football at break time.Steve Chalke is the founder of Oasis Charitable Trust, the organisation that runs the school, one of 54 in their charg -
Weather tracker: Mexico and southern Texas brace for torrential rain
via theguardian.comDisturbance in south-west Gulf of Mexico has 60% chance of developing into a hurricane over next seven daysA weather system is set to move over southern Texas and Mexico through this week, bringing vast quantities of rain. The National Hurricane Center noted a tropical disturbance in the south-west Gulf of Mexico that has a 60% chance of developing into a tropical depression during the next seven days. This potential tropical depression, essentially an area of low pressure, may be in a spot wher -
‘It can feel like a detective story’: birders asked to help find 126 ‘lost’ bird species
via theguardian.comThe birds have not been seen for at least a decade – some for more than 100 years – but the authors of a new list of missing species have not given up hopeThe coppery thorntail and New Caledonian lorikeet are among the 126 birds “lost” to science, having not been seen for a decade or more, according to the most comprehensive list of missing species composed to date.The new tally is based on millions of records collected by enthusiastic birders and amateur scientists docum -
EU passes law to restore 20% of bloc’s land and sea by end of decade
via theguardian.comNarrow win for supporters after fierce farmers’ protests, loss of green seats to far right and political wranglingThe EU has passed a landmark law to protect nature after a knife-edge vote, ending a months-long deadlock among member states spooked by fierce protests from farmers.But a last-minute change of heart by Austria, which is credited with saving the proposal, has plunged the country into political chaos – with the governing centre-right ÖVP announcing it will file crimin -
From LED bulbs to living plants: German theatre tackles climate crisis on and off stage
via theguardian.comWith tickets doubling as public transport passes and recycled props, Hans Otto Theater is embracing a €3m federal project to make culture climate neutralA handful of Spanish conquistadors fight through thick undergrowth to emerge in the ivy-clad ruins of a fallen civilisation during a rehearsal of Austrian playwright Thomas Köck’s Your Palaces Are Empty.Premiered last month at the Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam, south-west of Berlin, the bleak and unforgiving drama probes the wound -
I am so obsessed with seahorses, I had 26 tanks full of them in my home
via theguardian.comThe founder of the Seahorse Trust explains how his life-long fascination with the enigmatic creatures helped us to understand and protect them I saw a seahorse for the first time when I was 14. There is something very unfishlike about the way seahorses swim upright, and their constantly moving eyes – it made me feel completely in awe of them. Fifty-one years later, and that feeling has never gone away. Even now, if I’m on a dive and I see one, I find it amazing.Seahorses are fish tha -
Starwatch: noctilucent clouds are a great summer spectacle
via theguardian.comLonger days make it easier to see this natural phenomena, which can appear about 30 minutes after sunset in the westIt is the week of the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere. The longest day of the northern year falls on 20 June and by astronomical traditions, this marks the beginning of summer.In the southern hemisphere, this is the winter solstice, marked by the longest night. Continue reading... -
Kenya’s first nuclear plant: why plans face fierce opposition in country’s coastal paradise
via theguardian.comUnease and anger are rising over proposals to build country’s first facility on Kilifi coast, home to white sand beaches, coral reefs and mangrove swamps Kilifi County’s white sandy beaches have made it one of Kenya’s most popular tourist destinations. Hotels and beach bars line the 165 mile-long (265km) coast; fishers supply the district’s restaurants with fresh seafood; and visitors spend their days boating, snorkelling around coral reefs or bird watching in dense mangr -
‘It could wreak havoc’: Kenya’s nuclear plan casts a shadow over wildlife and tourism hotspot
via theguardian.comUnease and anger are rising over proposals to build country’s first facility on Kilifi coast, home to white sand beaches, coral reefs and mangrove swamps Kilifi County’s white sandy beaches have made it one of Kenya’s most popular tourist destinations. Hotels and beach bars line the 165 mile-long (265km) coast; fishers supply the district’s restaurants with fresh seafood; and visitors spend their days boating, snorkelling around coral reefs or bird watching in dense mangr -
Beavers create habitat suitable for water voles in Scottish rainforest
via theguardian.comBeavers’ dams have created more places for water voles to hide from predators and hopefully flourish, say expertsBeavers reintroduced to a Scottish rainforest 15 years ago may have created the right habitat for the area’s endangered water voles to flourish.The voles, once abundant in Scotland but now one of the country’s most threatened native animals, could thrive in the “complex boundary between water and land” that beavers have created in Knapdale in Argyll and B -
Country diary: A solitary bee thrives amid the wet | Kate Blincoe
via theguardian.comCaistor St Edmund, Norfolk: They like crevices in old brickwork, which is harder to come by these days, so my father has drilled holes and inserted canes to helpThe swallows flit in and out of the stable, greeted by a chorus from their open-mouthed chicks. The farrier is here applying a hot shoe to a hoof, and the air fills with a cloud of smoke.Then, beside me, a bee emerges from the brickwork. The weather has been distinctly bee-unfriendly of late, as the rain continues to fall, but this -
The Guardian view on the climate crisis and heatwaves: a killer we need to combat | Editorial
via theguardian.comBritain may be chilly, but from Greece to India, people are dying due to record temperatures. The death toll will grow without urgent actionWhile Britons don jumpers and complain about the unseasonable cold, much of the world has been reeling due to excessive temperatures. India has been in the grip of its longest heatwave in recorded history, with thermometers hitting 50C in some places. Greece closed the Acropolis in the afternoon last week as temperatures hit 43C; never has it seen a heatwave -
We should embrace our inner goddess – but let’s not create another test for women to fail | Jackie Bailey
via theguardian.comYou don’t have to wear a floral wreath or take milk baths to adhere to a modern goddess philosophyMaking sense of it is a column about spirituality and how it can be used to navigate everyday lifeWhen I am on deadline, nothing yet defrosted for dinner, and the washing is hanging on the clothesline in the rain, I find it hard to connect to my inner goddess. If I turn to the internet for advice, I’m presented with yet another to-do list.To embrace my goddess self, I must love myself, e -
US braces for ‘dangerous’ conditions as heatwave to hit midwest and north-east
via theguardian.comMeteorologists warn that heat will spread east through the week, with ‘heat dome’ expected to trap high temperaturesMillions of Americans are facing “dangerously hot conditions”, the National Weather Service said, with a heatwave set to hit the midwest and north-east US from Monday.Michigan, Ohio and western Pennsylvania were all under heat warnings starting Monday, with alerts in place until Friday evening. Meteorologists warned that the heat will spread east through the -
Ecuador’s president won’t give up on oil drilling in the Amazon. We plan to stop him – again | Nemonte Nenquimo
via theguardian.comThis forest is our home, our existence and our children’s future. Politicians who can’t resist selling it for oil cash will feel the strength of the Waorani peopleIn 2019 I helped lead a movement that defeated the Ecuadorian government’s plans to auction half a million acres of Waorani territory in the Amazon to oil companies. We showed in court that the government had violated its legal obligation to obtain free, prior and informed consent from Indigenous communities. We won a -
‘Stay angry as hell with our politicians’: Katharine Hamnett on politics, the planet and slogan T-shirts
via theguardian.comThe pioneering designer and activist has been making waves for decades. Now she’s back with an urgent message – and this time she won’t take no for an answer…Katharine Hamnett has been plotting. On the cracked, peeling screen of her battered iPhone, she’s scrolling through what she hopes to be the blueprint for, come polling day, a ballot box-based revolution. It’s a PDF with an array of mocked-up billboards, each emblazoned with a policy or slogan. A designe -
Revealed: students at top private schools have 10 times more green space than state pupils
via theguardian.comGuardian investigation finds pupils at England’s wealthiest schools have much greater access to land, with implications for mental healthAnalysis: Green space better for young brains than we realisedHow England’s top private schools came to own 38,000 acres of landBeagling, golf and jolly hockey sticks: outdoor life at England’s largest private schoolsChildren at the top 250 English private schools have more than 10 times as much outdoor space as those who go to state schools, -
Revealed: private schools have 10 times more green space than state schools
via theguardian.comGuardian investigation finds pupils at England’s wealthiest schools have much greater access to land, with implications for mental healthAnalysis: Green space better for young brains than we realisedHow England’s top private schools came to own 38,000 acres of landBeagling, golf and jolly hockey sticks: outdoor life at England’s largest private schoolsChildren at the top 250 English private schools have more than 10 times as much outdoor space as those who go to state schools,
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