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5 million Nigerians gain clean cooking access annually, but it’s not enough, experts say
UYO, Nigeria — Before dawn, Happiness Emmanuel is already at the fire. She crouches beside a three-legged metal stand outside her home in Uyo city, southeastern Nigeria, splashing…
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Plans to create a wildflower meadow take shape
Fairstead Recreation Ground is being planted with wildflowers to benefit insects and pollinators.
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Fed-up driver builds AI litter tracker
Robin Bennett says he created the app after getting frustrated by the amount of rubbish beside roads
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The dump detectives on the trail of the fly-tippers
The BBC joins environmental enforcement officers as they sift through illegally-dumped waste for clues.
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What do we still need to know about the Tyne nurdle spill?
The spill of 18 tonnes of plastic pellets happened in July but there is still a lot we do not know.
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Fire-hit nature reserve 'will never be the same'
Three months on from a devastating wildfire, the RSPB says it will take 20 years to recover.
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Country diary 1951: A lonely walk on the Berkshire Downs
31 October 1951 : One can wander all day without seeing more than a single shepherd and his flock, while there are fewer birds up here than in the valleys BERKSHIRE: There can be…
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Country diary: Jackdaws carve up the sky as dusk descends on the moors | Richard Smyth
Eldwick Crag, West Yorkshire: In the low light and the high wind, these corvids are preparing to roost for the night. And they seem to be enjoying themselves Jackdaws like…
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Two men killed by falling trees as Storm Boelo leaves 90,000 properties without power
An amber wind warning has now expired after severe weather sweeps across the UK.
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From agriculture to AI-griculture: How tech is changing farming
From remote monitoring of cattle to automation of processes that took up valuable time, farmers in NI are rapidly becoming skilled in technology.
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Majority of homes in NI have power restored after Storm Boelo
Northern Ireland Electricity Networks (NIE) said around 12,500 properties were without power at one stage.
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In pictures: Storm Boelo leaves a trail of destruction across Scotland
The severe weather brought strong winds and heavy rain to large parts of Scotland.
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Man killed by falling tree as Storm Boelo batters Scotland
The 60-year-old man was struck by the tree near Castle Douglas as Storm Boelo brought strong winds and heavy rain to Scotland.
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The aftermath of Storm Boelo across Scotland
Flooding, travel disruption and fallen trees - Storm Boelo has left it's mark across Scotland.
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Travel disruption and power cuts after back-to-back storms
Authorities said they were dealing with flooding and fallen trees as Storm Boelo followed Storm Austen.
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The Guardian view on Oxford Street’s pedestrianisation: cities should be designed around people, not cars | Editorial
The transformation of Europe’s busiest shopping street should be a case study in making cities greener, less congested and more inviting places to live Sadiq Khan has been trying…
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When will the weather settle after Storm Boelo?
Gillian Smart has the weather forecast after the worst of Storm Boelo.
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Crows make decisions twice as fast as humans and monkeys
University of Tübingen researchers have shown that crows, when confronted with a visual choice, make a decision twice as fast as humans and monkeys. In the experiment, two carrion…
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Monarchs report their locations via… cellphone?
Who knew a monarch butterfly could borrow a cellphone to check in with friendly people he met on his journey? That is essentially what happens now that new technology has reduced…
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‘They paved paradise’: fighting back over the loss of green spaces in Cameroon’s capital
Concrete sprawl in Yaoundé has devastated the city’s trees and parks, so volunteers are stepping up, shrub by shrub A little piece of paradise is buried under the asphalt that is…
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Koalas are cute, furry, iconic – and dying of chlamydia. But how well does the approved vaccine work?
Queensland researchers say a published study contains ‘silly mistake’ that over-inflates vaccine’s efficacy but the regulator is standing by decision to approve it At wildlife…
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Police using AI risks making discrimination worse, researchers warn
AI tools learn from biased records and may deepen discrimination against minorities without oversight, researchers say.
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US military gives Elon Musk’s SpaceX access to sensitive tracking data
This gives the company an advantage in tracking objects in orbit, raising national security concerns and fears of greater control over the space industry The US military has given…
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U-turn on EV policy could stall UK’s take-up of EVs | Fiona Harvey and Jasper Jolly
The 2030 target for 80% of new cars to have zero emissions could be cut to as low as half Electric cars make people happy. More than nine in 10 EV drivers – 94% in a recent poll –…
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'What was in the Clyde is basically now on the shore'
BBC Scotland reports from the scene at Cardross as Storm Boelo batters the country.
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Lights out: the island that goes dark to save young seabirds – in pictures
Every autumn, Corvo Island in the Azores turns off its public lighting for a few key days to help fledgling Cory’s shearwaters as they attempt to fly to the ocean guided by the…
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More wet and windy weather to follow stormy weekend
Following the first two named storms of the season, wet and very windy conditions are set to continue into the start of the new week.
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Musk says SpaceX restricted Ukraine's Starlink connection as service restored
The tech billionaire accuses Ukraine of violating its terms of service by using the network for military activity.
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New evidence suggests spinosaurus spent most of its life underwater
Millions of years after animals first conquered land, some took an extraordinary evolutionary U-turn and returned to the water. Using machine learning and thousands of fossil…
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Rosebank: Life on the oil field at the centre of a political storm
Scotland editor James Cook finds out what life is like on board a ship in an untapped oil field awaiting its fate.
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‘It’s magic’: scientists rediscover how to make ancient Roman colour-changing glass
Exclusive: Optical engineering that went into 1,600-year-old Lycurgus Cup has baffled experts for centuries The Romans’ proficiency in the art of glass-making has produced some of…
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This mysterious mushroom makes people see hundreds of tiny humans
For nearly a century, people in distant parts of the world have reported a bizarre experience after eating certain wild mushrooms: seeing dozens or even hundreds of tiny, colorful…
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From Russian cages to Irish sanctuary: The five-year rescue journey of Bu and Tyapa
For Bu and Tyapa, the five-year journey from Russia to the Irish countryside was anything but straightforward.
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Who should have a say in which species are saved? The California condor offers lessons for a global biodiversity treaty
In 1987, biologists captured the last free-flying condor to transfer it to captivity, and the largest flying North American bird species was officially declared extinct in the…
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The BoM’s temperature record keeping is under attack – again. What’s going on? | Temperature Check
An ‘audit’ of the Bureau of Meteorology main dataset for measuring climate change claims it contains ‘widespread errors’. It doesn’t stack up Want to get this in your inbox when…
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International Gibbon Day: Stories of threats and survival
Twenty species of gibbons swing through the tropical forests of Asia, all are threatened by human activities like deforestation, hunting and trafficking baby gibbons for the…
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Sri Lanka mourns iconic tusker amid renewed calls to address human-elephant conflict
COLOMBO – The death of Kavantissa, one of Sri Lanka’s most iconic wild tuskers (Elephas maximus maximus), following a gunshot injury triggered an extraordinary wave of public…
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‘Bolso shows all signs of fascism’: the journalist who predicted Brazil’s future – and paid the ultimate price
Dom Phillips warned that Jair Bolsonaro would make life more dangerous for reporters and the Amazon rainforest, and that his sons were even more extreme “Bolso shows all signs of…
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A 1,000-mile cloud on Mars may reveal physics never seen in nature
A new model suggests Mars may host ice-forming physics never directly observed before.
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New Trump rule allows hunters to bait bears in Alaska with doughnuts, bacon and more
Critics decry Trump administration rule that lets hunters lure bears with human foods on federal lands in Alaska A new Trump administration rule allows hunters to bait bears on…
Fontes: Mongabay, The Guardian — Wildlife, The Guardian — Environment, BBC — Science & Environment, ScienceDaily — Plants & Animals, Phys.org — Plants & Animals, Phys.org — Ecology, The Guardian — Science, ScienceDaily — Earth & Climate, Ars Technica — Science, EDGE of Existence, WWF-Canada.