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Week in wildlife – in pictures: amorous frogs, battling stallions and an overaffectionate jaguar
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Budget-friendly tips to keep rented homes warm in winter
via theguardian.comStay cosy, save money and reduce your carbon footprint with these easy DIY, landlord-friendly optionsChange 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] who has rented a home in southern Australia knows just how bloody cold our houses can be in winter. Once referred to as “glorified tents” by QUT prof -
How do you put pigeons on the pill? Scientists test contraceptives to curb pest numbers
via theguardian.comBirth control is being trialled as a humane way to limit growing numbers of grey squirrels, pigeons and wild boarThe invention of the contraceptive pill heralded the sexual revolution of the 1960s, and now scientists are looking to revolutionise wildlife control by getting animals in on the action. Trials are under way in the UK and elsewhere in Europe of how to get contraceptives into pigeons, wild boar and grey squirrels, with scientists also proposingother rodents, invasive parakeets and deer -
Wildlife experts urge action on pesticides as UK insect populations plummet
via theguardian.comCampaigners say next government must reduce use and toxicity of pesticides before it is too lateThe UK’s insect populations are declining at alarming rates and the next government must put in place plans to monitor and reduce the use and toxicity of pesticides before it is too late, wildlife experts say.In recent years, concerns have been raised over earthworm populations, which have fallen by a third in the past 25 years. A citizen science project that monitors flying insects in the UK, m -
North Yorkshire landmark has ‘finest view’ – but did it also have a Nazi spy?
via theguardian.comProject will examine Sutton Bank’s rich history, including German aristocrats and a bloody 14th-century battleToday, Sutton Bank is as peaceful and tranquil a spot as you might find anywhere, offering visitors what has been called “England’s finest view”. But could it also have an untold history involving rich German aristocrats and a Nazi spy?A three-year archaeology project has begun to investigate the many histories of the landmark, near Thirsk in North Yorkshire. Cont -
Pigeons on the pill: scientists look to contraceptives to curb pest numbers
via theguardian.comBirth control is being trialled as a humane way to limit growing numbers of grey squirrels, pigeons and wild boarThe invention of the contraceptive pill heralded the sexual revolution of the 1960s, and now scientists are looking to revolutionise wildlife control by getting animals in on the action.Trials are under way in the UK and elsewhere in Europe of how to get contraceptives into pigeons, wild boar and grey squirrels, with scientists also proposingother rodents, invasive parakeets and deer -
Week in wildlife – in pictures: a comedy seal, a cricket-loving owl and hairy pigs on Exmoor
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Cold enthusiasts and dampness stans it is your time to shine. Here are some handy tips for surviving winter | First Dog on the Moon
via theguardian.comFind an empty investment property and move into itSign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are publishedGet all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints Continue reading... -
Children near Amsterdam airport use inhalers more, study finds
via theguardian.comResults show increase in symptoms such as wheeziness in presence of high aviation-related ultrafine particlesAs the public hearings for London Gatwick airport’s northern runway resume, researchers from the Netherlands have found greater inhaler use in children living near Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport.Stand close to a large airport and, if the wind is in the wrong direction, each cubic centimetre of air that you breathe will contain tens of thousands of ultrafine particles (UFP). Cont -
Country diary: A gleaming catch causes much excitement | Mary Montague
via theguardian.comLough Foyle, County Derry: A young man and his daughter have landed a needlefish – though it’s more muscular than the name suggestsI’m birdwatching at the edge of a reedbed, under a heavy sky that’s silvered by the falling sun, when a sudden outburst distracts me from my binoculars. I turn around to see a man gesticulating on top of the sea wall behind me. His fishing rod dangles a gleaming catch. I’m mildly surprised at his excitement. Most of the anglers I’v -
Unexpected number of whales currently swimming off the coast of New England
via theguardian.comResearchers made 161 sightings of whales – some of them endangered – south of Martha’s Vineyard and NantucketAn unexpected number of whales is visiting the waters off New England, including an unusually high number of an endangered species, said scientists who study the animals.A research flight made 161 sightings of seven different species of whale on 25 May south of Martha’s Vineyard and south-east of Nantucket, officials with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admini -
Will I need to spend a lot insulating my home to get a heat pump?
via theguardian.comMany people fear the UK’s draughty old properties are too great a challenge for the technologyCan heat pumps be installed in older properties?Do heat pumps work at freezing temperatures?Are heat pumps more expensive to run than gas boilers?Heat pumps could be the single largest step a household can take to reduce their carbon emissions while saving money on their bills. But many in Britain fear that, even though millions of homes across Europe have benefited from the shift away from gas or -
Kelp help? How Scotland’s seaweed growers are aiming to revolutionise what we buy
via theguardian.comFarmed kelp could produce plastic substitutes, beauty products and food supplements. Just steer clear of seaweed chocolatePhotographs by Christian Sinibaldi, words by Joanna MoorheadThink sun, sea, Skye – and seaweed. It’s early summer off the west coast of Scotland, and Alex Glasgow is landing a long string of orangey-black seaweed on to the barge of his water farm. It emerges on what looks like a washing line heavy with dirty rags, hoicked up from the depths. And yet, this slippery -
Rare cancers, full-body rashes, death: did fracking make their kids sick?
via theguardian.comPennsylvania families worry about rising cases of rare cancer with well pads near homes and stalled House billsOne evening in 2019, Janice Blanock was scrolling through Facebook when she heard a stranger mention her son in a video on her feed. Luke, an outgoing high school athlete, had died three years earlier at age 19 from Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare bone cancer.Blanock had come across a live stream of a community meeting to discuss rare cancers that were occurring with alarming frequency in -
Brazil’s devastating floods hit its ‘Black population on the periphery’ the hardest
via theguardian.comPorto Alegre’s poorest neighborhoods, often closest to rivers and with the worst infrastructure, bore brunt of crisisIt had been raining for nearly a week when the floodwaters first reached Marcelo Moreira Ferreira’s home in Porto Alegre, the capital of Brazil’s southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul.His wife and their four children left to seek shelter with relatives, but Ferreira, 51, wanted to stay: his father had built the modest one-story structure and he had lived there hi -
Brazil’s devastating floods hit ‘Black population on the periphery’ hardest
via theguardian.comPorto Alegre’s poorest neighborhoods, often closest to rivers and with the worst infrastructure, bore brunt of crisisIt had been raining for nearly a week when the floodwaters first reached Marcelo Moreira Ferreira’s home in Porto Alegre, the capital of Brazil’s southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul.His wife and their four children left to seek shelter with relatives, but Ferreira, 51, wanted to stay: his father had built the modest one-storey structure and he had lived there h -
‘They’re not like puppy dogs. They should be respected’: how to swim with sharks in British waters
via theguardian.comDiving with marine life such as blue sharks is growing in popularity in the UK, spurred by footage of encounters on social mediaWe have only been waiting in the grey Atlantic swell a few moments when the first flash of metallic blue appears in the water. A blue shark, a few miles from the coast of Penzance in Cornwall, emerges from the depths. It is time to get in the water – but part of my brain rebels.“It’s not what you think it will be like … not that ingrained fear t -
Humpback whale tangled in rope rescued off New South Wales coast - video
via theguardian.comMembers of the public and wildlife organisations spot a whale entangled in two buoys and a rope off the coast of NSW. A rescue teamlocates the humpback in the water off Fingal Heads with help from a helicopter, before successfully removing the rope that is lodged in its fin► Subscribe to Guardian Australia on YouTube Continue reading... -
‘I need your help saving koalas’: how Australians banded together to build wildlife corridors
via theguardian.comBangalow Koalas and private landholders have planted more than 377,000 trees across the regionIn 2016 a friend phoned Linda Sparrow about a 400-metre stretch of koala trees on the western edge of Bangalow, a small regional town in northern New South Wales.The landscape in the region had long since been cut back by loggers and farmers, and there were precious few eucalyptus trees left to provide refuge for koalas looking for food or shelter. Continue reading... -
Country diary: Fifty shades of green | Nic Wilson
via theguardian.comHexton, Hertfordshire: On the chalk hills in early summer, green is dominant – but only until the yellows take overThe rain-soaked chalk hills are a celebration of green: the green of crimped agrimony leaves and glaucous sedge blades; of horsetail, hogweed and unripe wayfaring berries. Greenery everywhere, energising everything. I hear it in the whitethroat’s scratchy bursts, see it in sunlight on spent cowslips and feel it in the pull of my breath as I climb the hill. I wonder if it -
Russia’s war with Ukraine accelerating global climate emergency, report shows
via theguardian.comMost comprehensive analysis ever of conflict-driven climate impacts shows emissions greater than those generated by 175 countries in a yearThe climate cost of the first two years of Russia’s war on Ukraine was greater than the annual greenhouse gas emissions generated individually by 175 countries, exacerbating the global climate emergency in addition to the mounting death toll and widespread destruction, research reveals.Russia’s invasion has generated at least 175m tonnes of carbon -
Eagle attacks, red invaders and a genetic bottleneck: inside the fight to save arctic foxes
via theguardian.comCaptive breeding in Norway has built up numbers endangered by the climate crisis and golden eagles but only a more diverse population will survive in the long termDeep in the Norwegian mountains, amid a vast expanse of bright snow and howling winds, Toralf Mjøen throws a piece of meat into a fenced enclosure and waits for a pair of dark eyes to appear from the snowy den.These curious and playful arctic foxes know Mjøen well. He has been the caretaker at this breeding facility for 1 -
Dirty waters: how the Environment Agency lost its way
via theguardian.comHaving created a watchdog for the environment, the government took its teeth out and muzzled it. Can public outrage rouse the Environment Agency to action?When Helen Nightingale joined the National Rivers Authority, the predecessor to the Environment Agency, in 1991, she thought of her work as a calling. She had been fascinated by nature since she was a child, when she used to poke around in the earth on her father’s allotment, looking for worms and beetles. In her job, Nightingale spent m -
The Guardian view on Europe’s imperilled green deal: time to outflank the radical right | Editorial
via theguardian.comThe burden of transition on economically insecure voters must be eased via a more ambitious fiscal approach by governmentsFollowing the European parliament elections of 2019, the newly elected president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, told MEPs: “If there is one area where the world needs our leadership, it is on protecting our climate … We do not have a moment to waste. The faster Europe moves, the greater the advantage will be for our citizens, our competitivenes -
Who should hold the next prime minister to account? Our best hope lies with the Green party | George Monbiot
via theguardian.comThe party’s manifesto, which pledges to use a wealth tax to revitalise our public services, shows it can push Labour to raise its ambitionsAll governments betray the hopes of their supporters. But Labour is getting its betrayal in early. By ruling out a wealth tax and other measures that could fund our collapsing public services and our increasingly desperate care and welfare needs; by failing to denounce the unfolding genocide in Gaza; by remaining silent about the curtailment of our righ -
‘The big story of the 21st century’: is this the most shocking documentary of the year?
via theguardian.comSix years in the making, jaw-dropping new film The Grab shows a secret scramble by governments and private firms to buy up global resourcesIn 2013, the US food conglomerate Smithfield Foods – the country’s largest pork producer and maker of the famous holiday ham – was sold to a Hong Kong-based company called WH Group in a deal worth $7.1bn. It was the largest ever Chinese acquisition of an American company; virtually overnight, WH Group, formerly called Shuanghui International -
Farmer Annie and her prize-winning sheep: Joanne Coates’ best photograph
via theguardian.com‘Sheep are Annie’s passion. She won an award with this north country cheviot. It’s put on a stand to keep it still’I moved back home to rural North Yorkshire in 2016, where I met my partner, a farmer. When you spend a lot of time on a farm, you end up helping out. I’m not from a farming background so I joined a Facebook group for women in farming to feel a bit more supported. You can ask about practical things – no question is a stupid one.I was photographing -
Wreck of Shackleton’s ship Quest found, last link to ‘heroic age of Antarctic exploration’
via theguardian.comThe vessel, which sank off the coast of Canada in 1962, was used by the explorer on his final voyage to the continentThe wreck of the ship on which renowned Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton died has been found off the coast of Labrador, Canada, searchers have announced.Locating the Quest – a schooner-rigged steamship which sank on a 1962 seal hunting voyage – represents a last link to the “heroic age of Antarctic exploration”, said search leader John Geiger. Conti -
Explorer Shackleton's last ship found on ocean floor
via bbc.comWreck hunters find the ship on which famed polar explorer Ernest Shackleton made his final voyage. -
Rare birds at risk as narco-gangs move into forests to evade capture – report
via theguardian.comCocaine traffickers have put two-thirds of Central America’s key habitats for threatened birds under threat, study findsCocaine consumption is threatening rare tropical birds as narco-traffickers move into some of the planet’s most remote forests to evade drug crackdowns, a study has warned.Two-thirds of key forest habitats for birds in Central America are at risk of being destroyed by “narco-driven” deforestation, according to the paper, published on Wednesday in the jou
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