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• Schuh steps into big savings with water supplier switch

  27-06-2016 13:23
  
  High street footwear giant schuh is set to reduce overheads by £62,000 thanks to a change in water supplier in addition to the identification of a watercourse that was absorbing run-off drainage from one of the retailer's distribution centres.
  
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• The ups and downs of SpaceX's Starship test flights

  27-09-2026 23:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC's Ricky Boleto looks how previous SpaceX test flights went.
  
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• Watch: The ups and downs of SpaceX's 13 Starship test flights

  27-09-2026 22:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC's Ricky Boleto looks how previous SpaceX test flights went.
  
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• Father and son crowned Sheep Dog World Trial champions

  27-09-2026 18:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  David and Jack Howells say they "never in million years" thought they would win the double.
  
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• Anatomy of an inferno: inside the push to map, predict and prevent spread of increasing UK wildfires

  27-09-2026 17:00 via theguardian.com
  Scientists are racing to understand how fires behave as hotter summers turn green landscapes into tinderboxesFrom the scorched heathlands of the New Forest to the smouldering valleys of south Wales and burned-out homes in Stourbridge, an extraordinary summer of wildfires has left its mark across Britain.To most of us, these charred landscapes may look like pure devastation, but to a trained wildfire investigator they are full of clues. Heat-scorched leaves can become frozen in position, preservi
  
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• One dead as nor'easter storm pummels New York and New Jersey

  27-09-2026 14:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tens of millions of people from Maine to Virginia found themselves in the path of the powerful weather system.
  
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• Your pictures of the Harvest Moon shimmering across the UK sky

  27-09-2026 14:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The full Moon put on a stunning display over the skies of UK on Saturday night and here are some of your photographs.
  
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• Grizzly reality: US states grapple with uptick in encounters between bears and humans

  27-09-2026 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Bears are increasingly entering places where humans live in the US, forcing wildlife workers to make tough decisionsDan Thompson, supervisor of the large carnivore section of the Wyoming game and fish department, enjoys the field work of capturing mountain lions, wolves, black bears and grizzly bears to study them.“I have always been personally intrigued with carnivores and their role throughout any ecosystem,” Thompson said. “I actually feel very fortunate to get paid to do wh
  
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• ‘It’s hard to sell a house when it’s covered in baboon faeces’: Cape Town divided over plan to remove its monkeys

  27-09-2026 13:00 via theguardian.com
  Two troops of chacma baboons are breaking into homes and shops but animal rights activists insist coexistence is the answerCape Town’s city council has said it will “imminently” round up two baboon troops coming into repeated conflict with residents. The animals will be sterilised and permanently moved to a newly constructed sanctuary. The plan has been fiercely criticised by animal rights activists, who say the monkeys should remain roaming freely, and that less destructive op
  
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• ‘People are standing up and fighting back’: the north Devon revolt against a vast AI datacentre

  27-09-2026 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Plans for one of Europe’s largest AI campuses in a Unesco-designated reserve have sparked a fierce local backlashThe datacentre revolt spreading across the US has reached the rolling hills of north Devon in an uprising against a planned hyperscale AI data campus in the middle of a globally protected landscape.Perched on an inland cliff, the town of Great Torrington has views that stretch for miles over the landscape of the Unesco biosphere reserve in which it sits, taking in the winding Ri
  
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• Why families are being urged to look closer on autumn walks

  27-09-2026 08:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Experts urge families to spot, photograph and enjoy autumn fungi on their doorstep.
  
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• Bumblebee project seeking to help rare species

  27-09-2026 08:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The programme to help the Moss carder species will focus on Cornwall, Kent and the North Pennines.
  
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• Bangkok roads submerged as flood disaster declared

  27-09-2026 06:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Authorities said the heavy rains have subsided but the flooding is not yet over.
  
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• Bangkok’s flood disaster – in pictures

  27-09-2026 05:27 via theguardian.com
  Authorities declared a flood disaster across Bangkok after almost two days of heavy rain left homes, shops and roads waterlogged and residents wading through waist-deep water.The Thai capital recorded 300mm of rainfall over 48 hours through ⁠Saturday in some areas, flooding roads and ​leaving ​some cars ​submerged. The rain swelled the city’s network of canals, sending murky water into surrounding homes, restaurants and shops Continue reading...
  
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• The young women guiding tourists through India's night sky

  27-09-2026 01:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Astronomy tourism is giving young women in Hanle income, confidence and a new role in their community.
  
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• Hundreds of wildflowers to be planted at meadow

  26-09-2026 13:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Friends of the Lake District wants to reintroduce species lost to some farming practices.
  
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• Butterfly populations 'could crash' due to weather

  26-09-2026 13:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  More than 77,000 butterflies were recorded in Devon while 47,000 were spotted in Cornwall this July.
  
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• Broken promises, confiscated land: the hyperscale AI datacentre being built in a tiny Indian village

  26-09-2026 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Locals say Google’s $15bn project in Andhra Pradesh has resulted in smallholdings being taken back off them by the governmentWhen the government officials arrived in Tarluvada last year, they came with abundant promises.Google, one of the world’s richest and most powerful tech companies, would soon be bringing a “golden opportunity” to this tiny village in south India: a $15bn AI datacentre. Continue reading...
  
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• What is El Niño, what causes it and can we reduce the risks?

  26-09-2026 12:00 via theguardian.com
  This year’s ‘godzilla’ climate phenomenon has already broken temperature records. We ask a climate scientist what is happeningThis year’s huge El Niño, which comes less than two years since the last one, has already broken temperature records. To understand what is happening, and why, the Guardian interviewed Prof Mat Collins, a climate scientist at the University of Exeter, the author of some of the world’s most important climate reports and an expert on the
  
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• Seahorse habitats 'healing' thanks to eco-moorings

  26-09-2026 08:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scars in Studland Bay's seagrass meadows, caused by boat anchor chains, are healing, a study finds.
  
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• Country diary: I’m virtually living in the woods now. Wildlife is everywhere | Kate Bradbury

  26-09-2026 06:30 via theguardian.com
  Lewes, East Sussex: Owls, bats, badgers and countless birds are my new neighbours, but I’ve been particularly taken by a mystery tree – and its resident treecreeperI have made the woods my home, moving from Brighton to the outskirts of Lewes, where the garden backs on to the remains of an old oak wood. Here there’s a riot of wildlife: a badger that makes snuffle holes in the lawn, a family of tawny owls in the trees and a cauldron of bats in the chimney.I have plans to let the
  
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• Cooler roofs will prevail: colours and coatings to help beat the heat

  26-09-2026 02:00 via theguardian.com
  Even before adding solar panels, your roof can help you keep cool and lower your energy billsChange by degrees offers life hacks and sustainable living tips each Saturday to help reduce your household’s carbon footprintGot a question or tip for reducing household emissions? Email us at [email protected] an historic El Niño under way in the Pacific, Australia could face record temperatures this summer. For those in hot homes, reflective roof coatings can be a cost-e
  
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• The treasured 'eternal snow' on this tropical island is about to disappear forever

  26-09-2026 00:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Climate change is transforming Papua's snowy peaks, which hold scientific value and spiritual significance.
  
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• Space museum launched by Britain's first astronaut

  25-09-2026 18:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Helen Sharman officially opened the John Dulcamara Space Flight Museum at Grizedale Observatory.
  
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• ‘Robust little’ vessel begins treacherous 22,000km journey around Antarctica in the name of climate science

  25-09-2026 17:00 via theguardian.com
  Powered by sun and wind, the uncrewed vehicle will collect data to help Australian scientists better understand how oceans absorb emissionsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA small uncrewed vessel has embarked on a lap around Antarctica and may not return for months.The seven-metre craft, which looks like a large kayak in hi-vis orange, is expected to travel about 22,000km through inhospitable waters, propelled by powerful westerly winds and energy from the sun. The jour
  
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• I saw pedestrians swear at plovers when they swooped. But I admired the birds

  25-09-2026 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Many people despise these birds for violently defending their babies in nests they create in ridiculously vulnerable areas. My community, however, became devoted to them It was early September when the two spur-winged plover chicks hatched.They hit the ground running, literally. Shortly after emerging from the speckled brown eggs their mother had laid in a shallow divot, they were scurrying around on their disproportionately long, stilt-like legs. They looked like fluffy brown and white cotton b
  
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• Girl's out-of-this-world question for Tim Peake

  25-09-2026 16:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Marjorie, 6, had a BIG question for astronaut Tim Peake ahead of his visit to Lincoln
  
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• ‘Hope is a built-in characteristic’: Margaret Atwood on birds, conservation and optimism for the future

  25-09-2026 15:00 via theguardian.com
  Canadian novelist has celebrated her late partner’s love of birds with a C$1m gift to a university to establish the Graeme Gibson chair in avian biologyIf she could be any bird, Margaret Atwood would transform into a raven. “They’re very smart. They’re social, playful and just a very successful bird,” she says while seated in a corner of a bird observatory in the Lake Erie Islands archipelago. “They’re quite an intelligent problem solver.”The obser
  
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• ‘Birdwatching is close to rapture’: Margaret Atwood on why she has given C$1m to the study of birds

  25-09-2026 15:00 via theguardian.com
  Award-winning novelist celebrates late partner’s love of birds with gift to establish the Graeme Gibson chair in avian biologyIf she could be any bird, Margaret Atwood would transform into a raven. “They’re very smart. They’re social, playful and just a very successful bird,” she says while seated in a corner of a bird observatory in the Lake Erie Islands archipelago. “They’re quite an intelligent problem solver.”The observatory, which she set up w
  
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• ‘Birdwatching is close to rapture’: Margaret Atwood on why she has given C$1m to avian research

  25-09-2026 15:00 via theguardian.com
  Award-winning novelist celebrates late partner’s love of birds with gift to establish the Graeme Gibson chair in avian biologyIf she could be any bird, Margaret Atwood would transform into a raven. “They’re very smart. They’re social, playful and just a very successful bird,” she says while seated in a corner of a bird observatory in the Lake Erie Islands archipelago. “They’re quite an intelligent problem solver.”The observatory, which she set up w
  
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