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by Patrick Barkham on (#11SHS)
It would be more tragic if no one wanted to see a dead sperm whale. We should be able to admire these incredible creatures without condemnationWhen a sperm whale was washed up on the Norfolk coast, Thomas Browne raced from his home to inspect the animal. Braving an “abominable scentâ€, Browne took samples and roasted some flesh in an attempt to discover the secret of the “oyl†or spermaceti after which the whale is named.This great polymath and 17th century scientist wasn’t the only disrespectful whale poker. A 1602 engraving by Dutch artist Jan Saenredam depicts crowds around another stranded whale: people clamber on it; one holds up a toddler to see it better. Our curiosity when these deep-sea mammals are washed into our shallows is timeless. But our condemnation of such sightseers is a very modern phenomenon. Continue reading...
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by Graham Ruddick on (#11SFX)
The CEO says his company has a duty to lead on key issues, be it corporate governance, long-term investment, the global economy or climate change“The world is in a more challenging situation than many people perhaps realise,†Paul Polman explains. Depending on your point of view, the chief executive of Unilever, one of the biggest companies in the world, is either a gloomy pessimist or a unique figure in international business who believes his company has a duty to help the world tackle its big issues.Being a pessimist certainly has its advantages as a chief executive. If you talk down the markets you operate in then no one expects much from you. If you also promote your own social conscience then it can help boost how customers view your company, particularly important for a business such as Unilever that produces everyday consumer brands from the washing powder Persil to Magnum, the ice-cream on a stick. Continue reading...
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by AFP on (#11SE5)
PFCs are hazardous to the environment and human health and ‘widely present’ in a range of leading outdoor brands tested by GreenpeaceGreenpeace said on Monday that hazardous chemicals were “widely present†in a range of outdoor gear it tested, from clothing and footwear to backpacks, tents and sleeping bags.
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by Toby Stirling Hill on (#11S1N)
An Ayoreo group in the Chaco whose ancestral land was sold to international ranchers in 2012 is battling for its return – and to hang on to their way of lifeUnine Cutamorajna steers his motorbike past the bulbous silhouettes of the samu’u trees. Filled with water and studded with thick thorns, they are fine examples of plant adaptation to the hot, arid climate of the Paraguayan Chaco.“This is all our territory,†he shouts over his shoulder. “The white men tried to take it from us, but we’re here again now.†Continue reading...
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by Guardian Staff on (#11RZZ)
Henry Worsley, who died in Chile on Monday, is interviewed on the BBC’s Today programme on 19 October 2015. Worsley explains that he would make his journey across the Antarctic alone and have only limited backup in the event of an accident. The 55-year-old former British army officer was 71 days into his attempt when he radioed for help and was airlifted from the region. His family announced on Monday that he died from organ failure while in intensive care in Chile. He was raising money for the Endeavour FundListen to the full interview on BBC Today’s website Continue reading...
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by Dana Nuccitelli on (#11RYT)
An exceptionally hot year, 2015 shattered records, but will just be the norm in 15 years’ time
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by Guardian Staff on (#11RWB)
Four sperm whales die after getting stranded in shallow British waters over the weekend. Three of the whales are believed to have died in sea before washing up on Saturday on a beach in Skegness, on the Lincolnshire coast, according to British officials
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by Press Association on (#11RW3)
Warnings in place in Scotland, England and Wales, with two bands of rain accompanied by strong windsBritain is set for a heavy bout of rain with the arrival of what is left of the snow storms that blasted the US east coast.
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by Guardian Staff on (#11RRE)
A 7.1 magnitude earthquake hits southern Alaska on Sunday. In Anchorage airport the cargo centre’s ceiling rocks and the lights swing. The earthquake was centred 53 miles west of Anchor Point in the Kenai Peninsular, 160 miles south-west of Anchorage. There were no injuries
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by Tomas Holderness and Etienne Turpin on (#11RRY)
Monsoon floods hit the Indonesian capital in 2015, sparking 100,000 Twitter conversations. Here’s how those tweets were used in the rescue operationFive major floods hit Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, in 2015, sparking more than 100,000 flood-related Twitter conversations in the city.Jakarta, the world’s second largest city, is regularly devastated by flooding during the annual monsoon. The global proliferation of smartphones has meant citizens increasingly take to social media networks to share information during emergency events like these. Continue reading...
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by Katharine Norbury on (#11RNY)
In an uncompromising and lyrical memoir Liptrot describes how she exiled herself to the remote Scottish islands to kick alcoholLast year saw a flurry of books generated by the edge lands of Britain. Dan Boothby’s Island of Dreams, Rob Cowen’s Common Ground and Malachy Tallack’s 60 Degrees North are all fine titles, hewn from extremities and examining our relationship with landscape. Into this vibrant arena storms Amy Liptrot and her debut The Outrun, an uncompromising account of addiction and recovery played out against the blasted fields of Orkney.The book opens with a glossary and we are invited to enter Liptrot’s strange, raw world armed with a list of site-specific terms, clues to an unknown land. When we slide back in time to observe Liptrot’s mother, returning from the mainland with baby Amy in her arms, she pauses to greet her husband before he is escorted off the island in a straitjacket. Thus we meet two of the book’s central themes: things carried away or returned to Orkney, lives broken and restored by forces greater than themselves. Right from the beginning the proximity of the edge is palpable, both in the sense of a tipping point or boundary (a dead sheep kicked into a geo, a pet dog that runs off a cliff, children tethered on windy days to stop them blowing away) and of sharpness (sobriety, control, danger, sex), and it’s a word Liptrot repeatedly returns to. Continue reading...
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by Arthur Neslen, Brussels on (#11RD7)
Bertrand Piccard, the mastermind of a solar-powered attempt to circumnavigate the globe, draws fire after backing government decision to cut solar panel subsidies by 65%Bertrand Piccard , the pioneer of a solar-powered attempt to fly around the Earth, has defended a decision by David Cameron’s government to cut subsidies for householders installing solar panels by 65%.A cap on subsidies has fanned industry fears that the rate of domestic solar panel installations is set to halve, and the government admits that more than half the UK solar industry’s 32,000 jobs could be lost. Continue reading...
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by Joshua Robertson on (#11RC6)
Senator dubs investigation the ‘Bender inquiry’ in honour of Queensland farmer whose suicide after 10-year battle with gas companies put issue in spotlightThe Queensland senator Glenn Lazarus says he hopes a Senate inquiry into unconventional gas mining will restart political momentum around a push for farmer land rights which has waned in the months since the death of activist George Bender.
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by Colin Williams on (#11R8S)
Watership Down, Hampshire That a stream of glycerine-clear water should be there where before there was none is the epitome of nature at its most tantalisingly transient. And, beside these sun-shafted winter beech woods, a thing of subtle, bright beauty.I have filled my pockets with freezing fingers that have refused their office at the focus wheel of my binoculars. A period of heavy rainfall has ended and a biting cold wind has arrived. There is nothing for it but to visit the river. It’s an easy walk from the house up the white-chalk drover’s road onto the spine of the downs. It’s here where the river appears – and sometimes disappears within the space of a day. A winterbourne.To concentrate on the prosaic mode of their appearance – aquifers of chalk become saturated, steadily releasing their water – is to miss the winterbournes’ unique vitality. That a stream of glycerine-clear water should be there where before there was none is the epitome of nature at its most tantalisingly transient. That it should spring up here, fleeting and temporary, is a gift to the birds in a freeze – and, beside these sun-shafted winter beech woods, a thing of subtle, bright beauty. Continue reading...
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by Calla Wahlquist on (#11QZV)
Former Australian Greens leader is believed to be the third person charged under enhanced powers aimed at cracking down on environmental protestersBob Brown has been arrested at a forestry protest in Tasmania, making him the third person charged under Tasmania’s tough new anti-protest laws.The former Australian Greens leader and founder of the party was arrested at an area of state forest marked for logging at Lapoinya in north-west Tasmania on Monday. The arrest was announced on his Twitter account. Continue reading...
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by Helen Swanwick on (#11QHT)
Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 27 January 1916Kew Gardens. A stormy grey sky, with clouds racing furiously, reared up against that sombre background the plumes of English elms, happy - these particular specimens - in not having yet been truncated, either by adventure or by the prudent hand of the woodman; jets of sunshine, rendered keener by concentration, directed at these plumes and shewing them the loveliest veiled crimson. It is a fresh surprise every year to see this transformation of the common elm, a most satisfying tree at all times, but never quite so wonderful as now, when the delicate tracery of the branches has not been thickened or blurred with leaves, but has over it the wonderful glow of the blossoms. One reads that these are “insignificant,†“of no particular beauty.†Strange opinion! They are closely set, to the tips of the tiniest twigs; their buds being crimson and the protruding anthers iron-grey, the colour effect in the mass, when illuminated by stormy sunshine, is almost menacing; on a still clear day, with a pale blue sky behind them, they become almost pink. It is early for them, but many other trees are blossoming early, too. I have just seen several poplars in full bloom, one with catkins very like the pussy willow and another with fine rust-red blossoms (Populus Tremula and P. Tremuloides). Further on a handsome member of the Dogwood family, Cornus Mas, was thickly studded with canary yellow flowers, growing in umbels. This is two or three weeks earlier than usual, but then we have had some days as warm as May. Continue reading...
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by Paul Brown on (#11QE7)
If you have never heard of the case-bearing carpet moth, Tinea pellionella, you are lucky – they have probably not invaded your home. These tiny but incredibly destructive and hard to exterminate native species can munch their way through wool carpets at remarkable speed and render them bald.Their original habitat is outdoors, where they live in bird’s nests or on discarded fur or animal skin, and are so small and dull they would escape almost everyone’s attention in the wild. Continue reading...
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by Kate Ravilious on (#11QDF)
Traditionally the Sahel – a semi-arid strip of land, south of the Sahara Desert – is one of Africa’s most productive crop regions. But during the 1980s this region, which stretches from the Atlantic to the Red Sea, became better known for drought and famine. Thankfully the region has become wetter again, and now new research indicates that the return of the rains is most likely a beneficial side-effect of global warming.Rainfall statistics show that between the 1950s and 1980s summer rainfall fell by around 40% across the Sahel, bringing the region to its knees. At the time scientists speculated that the drought was linked to poor land management, and a rapidly growing population. But newer data indicates that it may have been sulphate aerosols, produced by fossil fuel burning in Europe and North America, which slowed evaporation from the North Atlantic and cut off the Sahel’s moisture source. Continue reading...
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by Bruce Watson Ellen Weinreb on (#11QBS)
The historic COP21 agreement is poised to create a jump in sustainability hiring. Here are four areas of the job market expected to grow significantly in five yearsThe COP21 agreement was a historic milestone for climate change action, with a similarly historic price tag. According to the International Energy Agency, achieving its goals will cost an estimated $16.5tn by 2030.By comparison, when US President Barack Obama referenced “the single biggest investment in clean energy in our history†in his 2016 State of the Union address, he was referring to a comparatively tiny $90bn investment part of the 2009 Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Continue reading...
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by Oliver Laughland and Ryan Felton in Flint, Michiga on (#11Q7R)
City’s residents, many of whom live in poverty, fear consequences to their children in Michigan town where life has changed immeasurablyAnnette Williams is careful to hold her granddaughter Sharell’s head at bath time, to keep the two-year-old from taking a gulp of toxic water. Though most people no longer drink what flows through Flint’s corroded pipes, many families have little choice but to bathe in it.
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by Maev Kennedy on (#11PY6)
Scientists believe whales are from same pod as one that died on a Norfolk beach and are worried about surviving membersThree dead sperm whales have washed up on a beach near Skegness. Crowds flocked to see the creatures, believed to be from the same pod as one that died on Hunstanton beach in Norfolk, despite efforts to help it back into deeper water after it became stranded.Scientists are now concerned about any surviving members of the pod, thought to have comprised at least six whales. Continue reading...
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by Shane Hickey on (#11PE4)
Lunagen has created a system for generating electricity from slow moving water in areas where space is at a premiumFor entrepreneur Lauren Dickerson, water mills are an ancient form of renewable energy that can be brought into the 21st century. Continue reading...
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by Tim Adams on (#11NZ3)
Like his brother, physicist and meteorologist Piers Corbyn is a man of revolutionary zeal. His own battle, however, is against all this ‘climate-change nonsense’…When Jeremy Corbyn won the leadership of the Labour party in September he celebrated in a pub up the road from the Houses of Parliament with a thank you to supporters and a rousing rendition of the Red Flag. On the edge of the impromptu stage that day, beside Len McCluskey of Unite and John McDonnell the future shadow chancellor, was a singular figure singing with particular pride: Piers Corbyn, the new leader’s elder brother, who has, you could say, led a parallel career of stubborn principle to his younger sibling. I was in the euphoric crowd that day, and since then I’ve wondered a bit about the relationship between the brothers, what they have learned from each other. With some of this in mind I called Piers recently and asked if he might like to talk about some of that. He agreed, but typically on the basis that he would happily talk about any subject under the sun – apart from his relationship with Jeremy and the vexed question of how his leadership is going. He shares much of his brother’s mistrust of the press; recently, he suggests, the Independent published an account of an exchange that had taken place over a family Christmas dinner. That wasn’t on. What he will talk about, though, is the thing he has talked about for just about as long as he can remember: the weather.On this very British basis we met last week in a cafe over the road from his office on Borough High Street in south London. You don’t have to speak to Piers for very long to realise that at least a couple of Corbyn family traits are indelible: the first is that intransigent rasp of a voice with faint traces of west country burr; the second is the sense that life, like politics, is best played as a long game. Continue reading...
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by Daniel Boffey on (#11N3Q)
New fund aims to widen network of charging points across the countryBritain is to get its first “electric service stations†as part of a £40m government fund to encourage drivers to switch to plug-in cars.Four new stations are to be built, with at least one being located on the M1, ,which became the UK’s first inter-city motorway when it was opened in 1959. The state-of-the-art hubs will make it easier for electric vehicle drivers on motorways and in city centres to charge their car and will ease concerns over the range of the vehicles. Continue reading...
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by Robin McKie, science editor on (#11N3X)
From supermarket bags to CDs, man-made waste has contaminated the entire globe, and become a marker of a new geological epochHumans have made enough plastic since the second world war to coat the Earth entirely in clingfilm, an international study has revealed. This ability to plaster the planet in plastic is alarming, say scientists – for it confirms that human activities are now having a pernicious impact on our world.The research, published in the journal Anthropocene, shows that no part of the planet is free of the scourge of plastic waste. Everywhere is polluted with the remains of water containers, supermarket bags, polystyrene lumps, compact discs, cigarette filter tips, nylons and other plastics. Some are in the form of microscopic grains, others in lumps. The impact is often highly damaging. Continue reading...
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by John Vidal on (#11N3V)
It was the anti-road demonstration that gave birth to a generation of eco-warriors. Those who were there in 1996 tell how the standoff changed the physical and political landscape
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by Guardian Staff on (#11N3S)
Breathing safe air is a fundamental human right all too often denied to peopleBreathing safe air is about as fundamental as a human right can be. It is a disgrace that on average 79 people die prematurely each day in Britain from particulate pollution and that NO limits for a whole year have been breached in just a few days in several London streets (“Shock figures to reveal deadly toll of global air pollutionâ€, News).The situation requires urgent action. Diesel fuel is the worst offender for both these pollutants, so we need to impose a tax on the sale of new diesel vehicles, high enough to ensure that very few people will choose to buy diesel cars in future. Continue reading...
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by Chris Johnston on (#11MAR)
At least 45 flights between UK and US airports cancelled as 10 state governors declare emergenciesThe huge blizzard affecting much of the US east coast has also caused travel disruption in the UK, with at least 45 flights cancelled on Saturday.Related: Winter storm pummels US east coast as residents urged to stay home Continue reading...
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by Guardian Staff on (#11M7Y)
Video from the Smithsonian’s National Zoo (also known as the National Zoological Park) shows Tian Tian the giant panda enjoying the new layer of snow in his habitat. The Smithsonian’s National Zoo is home to four giant pandas and runs one of the world’s leading panda conservation programs
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by Associated Press on (#11M1N)
Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain project to expand system’s crude oil capacity is ‘all risk and no reward’ for tribes, who were not consulted, lawyer notesA proposed pipeline-expansion project in Canada will put the fishing rights and cultural heritage of US tribes at risk, a lawyer representing several Washington state tribes told Canadian energy regulators.Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain project would nearly triple pipeline capacity from 300,000 to 890,000 barrels of crude oil a day. It would carry oil from Alberta’s oil sands to the Vancouver area to be loaded on to barges and tankers for Asian and US markets. The project would dramatically increase the number of oil tankers that ply Washington state waters. Continue reading...
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by Jim Powell on (#11KMF)
Migrants struggle in the Balkan winter, the first flower grown in space, Rafael Nadal at the Australian Open – the best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this week Continue reading...
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by Andrew Testa/Panos on (#11KMQ)
20 years ago construction began on a road that destroyed hundreds of acres of woodland near the town of Newbury in Berkshire. Photographer Andrew Testa visited the site many times documenting the protests for the Observer and the Guardian Continue reading...
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by Charles Foster on (#11K7H)
Charles Foster wanted to understand the lives of animals. So he headed to the woods with his son – eating worms, navigating by smell and sleeping in a sett
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by Simon Hattenstone on (#11K7F)
Naturalist Charles Foster wanted to reconnect with his inner beast – so he tried living as a badger, a deer and a fox
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by Ray Collier on (#11JZA)
Achvaneran, Highlands The stoat seemed almost ethereal in its ermine winter coat, looking incongruously white with no snow for camouflageLooking at one of the bird feeding stations from the end of the house, I could see two male siskins attacking the peanuts with their usual enthusiasm. At least until a female great-spotted woodpecker decided the feeder was hers and the siskins moved to another. Then a small movement of white at the bottom of the door of the disused dog kennel attracted my attention. There was a tiny hole and whatever it was it seemed to be peering out at something. I reached for binoculars just in time to see a white stoat dart out of the hole and push something I could not identify into the kennel.The stoat seemed almost ethereal as it scamperedaround in its ermine winter coat, looking incongruously white with no snow for camouflage. Judging by its length it was a male, as they are larger than the females, and the characteristic black tip to the tail seemed longer than usual. Continue reading...
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by Scott Bixby in New York on (#11JEV)
Washington DC is at the center of the blizzard’s aim, where forecasters have warned residents to brace for more than 30in snow and wind gusts up to 50mphMillions of people across a dozen states are bracing for a weekend of travel disruption, possible power outages and white-out conditions as a potentially “paralyzing winter storm†begins to bear down on the eastern US on Friday.
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by Associated Press on (#11J67)
Releasing an initial water outlook for farmers, federal officials said heavy rains and strong Sierra Nevada snowpack could help, but reservoirs remain lowThe recent onslaught of El Niño storms only slightly increased the levels of California reservoirs that stand at half of historic depths for this time of year, federal officials said on Friday while releasing an initial water outlook for 2016.Heavy rainfall has soaked into a landscape that has been parched by four years of drought, and the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada has grown but hasn’t started to melt off and replenish the critically low reservoirs, US Bureau of Reclamation spokesman Shane Hunt said. Continue reading...
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by Oliver Milman in New York on (#11HPK)
Exclusive: Documents seen by the Guardian reveal questionable practices that mean people’s drinking water is at risk in ‘every major city east of the Mississippi’Water authorities across the US are systematically distorting water tests to downplay the amount of lead in samples, risking a dangerous spread of the toxic water crisis that has gripped Flint, documents seen by the Guardian show.The controversial approach to water testing is so widespread that it occurs in “every major US city east of the Mississippi†according to an anonymous source with extensive knowledge of the lead and copper regulations. “By word of mouth, this has become the thing to do in the water industry. The logical conclusion is that millions of people’s drinking water is potentially unsafe,†he said. Continue reading...
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by Rebecca Smithers Consumer affairs correspondent on (#11HDX)
Hackney Brewery and food waste charity Feedback link up to launch quality pale ale that’s made from surplus loaves of breadIts makers joke that it is the best thing since sliced bread, as the first UK-produced beer made from discarded crusts and unsold loaves launches this weekend.Toast ale, made entirely from surplus bread that would otherwise by thrown away by bakeries, delicatessens and supermarkets is the brainchild of Tristram Stuart – who has linked up with Hackney Brewery to produce the new ale. Continue reading...
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by Francesca Perry on (#11HB3)
City links: Floodable parks in Denmark’s capital, the rise of woodland gentrification and the Amsterdam urban farm powered by urinals all feature in this week’s roundup of the best city storiesThis week’s collection of our favourite urban stories takes us from Copenhagen to Amsterdam via New York, Paris and a cabin in the woods. As ever we’d love to hear about your favourite stories too – share them in the comments below. Continue reading...
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by Dave Hill on (#11H5G)
A community cycling scheme in Ilford is encouraging ethnic minority Londoners to take to two wheelsIn his Foreword to his 2013 Vision for Cycling in London, Boris Johnson candidly acknowledged that “truly mass participation†in two-wheel travel around the capital cannot be achieved unless more Londoners from those groups under represented in the city’s small but growing cycling population decide it’s better to get around by bike. He declares (on page 5) his wish for more women and older people to take up cycling, along with “more cyclists of all social backgrounds†and “more black and minority ethnic Londoners.†How might this laudable objective be achieved?It’s plain to those who wish to see that installing segregated infrastructure is not the universal answer to this question. Though safety considerations are a major factor inhibiting a lot Londoners from travelling by bike, there are also significant, specific cultural factors at work. The mayor’s Foreword didn’t mention these, but Transport for London has made a contribution to addressing them in partnership with the environmental regeneration charity Groundwork. Grants of up to £10,000 have been awarded to 31 community organisations of different kinds to fund cycling projects seeking to embrace those groups of Londoners yet to be much seduced by the hoped-for “cycling revolutionâ€. Continue reading...
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by Eric Hilaire on (#11H05)
Mountain lion kittens, Japanese snow monkeys and a new species of frog are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world Continue reading...
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by Damian Carrington on (#11GQQ)
Planned defence that would have covered areas of the city submerged in December’s floods was delayed and massively reduced, analysis revealsThe city of Leeds, submerged by devastating floods in December, has failed to win any new funding for better flood defences after environment secretary Liz Truss met the city’s MPs.A Guardian analysis of planned flood defences in Leeds shows that a £180m scheme that was delayed and heavily downsized following government funding cuts in 2011 covered areas of the city submerged by recent flooding. Continue reading...
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by Guardian Staff on (#11GM6)
Overturned fishing boats and dried-out carcasses lie under the glaring sun on what used to be Bolivia’s Lake Poopó. The country’s second-largest lake was officially declared evaporated last month, which experts say is an effect of climate change. A fisherman says he has been left without income, and thousands of others have lost their livelihoods
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by Joanna Walters and Jessica Glenza in New York on (#11GA7)
The storm is prompting severe warnings because of intense winds and an unusual amount of snowfallNational weather experts are warning of a potentially “crippling winter storm†bearing down on the eastern US from Friday through Sunday that began forming quickly late Wednesday, with deadly results.Washington, DC, is in the bull’s eye of the approaching tempest, but storm conditions ranging from hail and severe thunder to several feet of snow are forecast from Florida to New England. Continue reading...
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by Mona Chalabi on (#11G9J)
What does it mean that residents of Flint, Michigan, consumed water with dangerously high levels of lead for years before it was recognized as a problem?What does it mean that residents of Flint, Michigan, consumed water with dangerously high levels of lead for years before it was recognized as a problem? Here are some fast facts about just what’s in the Flint water and how it came to pass. Continue reading...
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by Rose Hackman on (#11GA9)
Researcher says safe approach would be to assume that at this point all children in the Michigan community have been exposed to lead-contaminated waterAt the beginning of 2015, Flint resident Lewenna Terry’s then-9-year-old son started having problems concentrating.
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by Press Association on (#11G2P)
Animal immortalised in Beatrix Potter books makes a comeback, after being locally extinct for over 25 years, thanks to conservation efforts
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by Justin McCurry in Tokyo on (#11G1D)
Ric O’Barry is accused of trying to enter the country using tourist visa to join campaign against slaughter of dolphins in TaijiA leading US animal rights activist is to be deported from Japan after being accused of trying to enter on a tourist visa to support a campaign against the slaughter of dolphins.
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by Winifred Bird for Environment 360, part of the Gua on (#11G1F)
A group of small-scale fishermen are waging an increasingly public struggle against industrial fleets using sonar and huge nets to scoop up massive catches of spawning tuna, reports Environment 360One after another, the fishermen stream into a makeshift office at Katsumoto port, on the island of Iki in the Sea of Japan. Outside, their small white boats are docked as a storm rages; inside, they chain-smoke and banter with the ease of lifelong acquaintance. Their business, however, is serious: Pacific bluefin tuna are disappearing from the sea, and somehow they must stop the decline.
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