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• How the US supreme court and an Idaho couple upended wetlands protection

  29-10-2023 13:30
  
  Experts fear half of the 290m wetland acres have lost federal protection and could be at risk from developersOften dismissed as dismal wet bogs and rampantly cleared since European arrival in the US, the underappreciated importance of wetlands has been placed into sharp relief by a supreme court ruling that has plunged many of these ecosystems into new peril.The extent of wetlands, areas covered or saturated by water that encompass marshes, swamps and carbon-rich peatlands, has shrunk by 40% ove
  
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• King Charles, Britain already admitted to torture in Kenya, no need for you to choke on an apology | Caroline Elkins

  29-10-2023 09:02
  
  The monarch will talk vaguely about ‘wrongs’ on his first official visit as head of state to a Commonwealth country. This blindness about the violence of empire must stopKing Charles III will travel this week to Kenya, his first visit to a Commonwealth country as Britain’s monarch. There, according to Buckingham Palace, he will “acknowledge the more painful aspects of the UK and Kenya’s shared history, including the Emergency (1952-60) … [taking] time during
  
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