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Invasive tropical mosquito found breeding in east London

silverguide.site – Climate crisis could increase incursions of Aedes aegypti, which can transmit Zika virus and dengue, experts say…
Invasive tropical mosquito found breeding in east London
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The plastic waste overtaking New York – and the people trying to curb it

silverguide.site – From New York to Quebec, photographer Bryan Anselm spent months capturing spaces overrun with plastic and the actions individuals and groups are taking to reduce waste…
The plastic waste overtaking New York – and the people trying to curb it
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Bring on the drones: how a technology revolution is being rolled out across Africa’s nature reserves

silverguide.site – As graduates of an online training course gather from across the continent, the consensus is overwhelming: computers and saving animals go together…
Bring on the drones: how a technology revolution is being rolled out across Africa’s nature reserves
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Country diary: A stranded traveller that looks more plastic than animal | Elizabeth-Jane Burnett

silverguide.site – Appledore, Devon: By-the-wind sailors have been washed up in great numbers this summer. I stumble on a single one of these bright blue beauties…
Country diary: A stranded traveller that looks more plastic than animal | Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
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‘Supersizing before our eyes’: UN warns of record El Niño approaching

silverguide.site – Event is likely to be largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into a world already in a climate crisis…
‘Supersizing before our eyes’: UN warns of record El Niño approaching
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From ‘psyops’ to ‘hysterical hysteria’: how GB News and Talk TV lost their cool in the heatwaves

silverguide.site – Thousands of heat-related deaths in record-breaking temperatures appeared to only intensify hosts’ climate denials…
From ‘psyops’ to ‘hysterical hysteria’: how GB News and Talk TV lost their cool in the heatwaves
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Australia’s new environmental protection agency approves coal project, angering climate groups

silverguide.site – Queensland open-cut Saraji mine will be able to keep digging until 2055 as Anthony Albanese denies tensions with Pacific leaders over fossil fuels…
Australia’s new environmental protection agency approves coal project, angering climate groups
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China’s falling emissions amid Iran war spark hope of decarbonisation watershed

silverguide.site – Oil consumption plummets and EV sales soar as analysts say demand may not fully return even if crude price falls…
China’s falling emissions amid Iran war spark hope of decarbonisation watershed
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Almost half of world’s farmers poisoned by pesticides every year, experts find

silverguide.site – Study reveals that pesticide poisoning kills 11,000 people each year, with India accounting for nearly 60% of fatalities…
Almost half of world’s farmers poisoned by pesticides every year, experts find
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‘It smelled like dead people’: the plan to tackle England’s illegal waste problem

silverguide.site – Andy Burnham has announced a crackdown, but doubts remain over authorities’ ability to take on organised crime…
‘It smelled like dead people’: the plan to tackle England’s illegal waste problem
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Specieswatch: Deciduous trees are marching north and ousting evergreens

silverguide.site – Northern landscapes could soon look different, as wildfires and storms disturb boreal forests…
Specieswatch: Deciduous trees are marching north and ousting evergreens
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Country diary: The rain has come, and suddenly the land looks (and smells) different | Nicola Chester

silverguide.site – Inkpen, Berkshire: From lurid yellow to a moorland brown; from the scent of fire smoke to sheep urine. It’s amazing what some rainfall can do…
Country diary: The rain has come, and suddenly the land looks (and smells) different | Nicola Chester
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Global heating will hit at least 1.8C, UN warns, and there are ‘no good outcomes’

silverguide.site – Human health, water supplies, nature, cities, infrastructure and economies could all be severely damaged by temperature rises…
Global heating will hit at least 1.8C, UN warns, and there are ‘no good outcomes’
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Is flying a shark drone a boring job? Possibly – until suddenly it isn’t

silverguide.site – Seventy beaches across New South Wales are part of the $34m dawn-to-dusk drone-monitoring program, which one expert has called ‘the best technology we have at the moment’…
Is flying a shark drone a boring job? Possibly – until suddenly it isn’t
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High winds during El Niño could be deadly for England’s stressed trees, say experts

silverguide.site – Head of tree collections at Kew ‘very worried about this autumn’ as hot, dry summer has caused brittleness…
High winds during El Niño could be deadly for England’s stressed trees, say experts
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Solar cuts ‘at least £400 from bills in even the cloudiest British areas’

silverguide.site – Savings grow as energy prices in Great Britain rise and cost of panel installation falls, analysis finds…
Solar cuts ‘at least £400 from bills in even the cloudiest British areas’
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Cities sweltering and the smell of the middle ages: has the climate crisis killed Instagram’s Euro summer? | Brigid Delaney

silverguide.site – Who dreams of having a Euro summer now when staying in an ancient, uncooled building in the Old Town is like trying to sleep in a wood-fired pizza oven?…
Cities sweltering and the smell of the middle ages: has the climate crisis killed Instagram’s Euro summer? | Brigid Delaney
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Country diary: A wasps’ nest in our shed is a work of art, a family saga | Mark Cocker

silverguide.site – Buxton, Derbyshire: For 10 weeks the door of our shed was shut while a colony got to work. Now, finally, we can admire their achievement…
Country diary: A wasps’ nest in our shed is a work of art, a family saga | Mark Cocker
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Rising microplastics in soil a threat to UK food security, MPs and campaigners say

silverguide.site – Report calls for legally binding targets to cut microplastic pollution as soil ‘is a complex living ecosystem’…
Rising microplastics in soil a threat to UK food security, MPs and campaigners say
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Thriving lichen-loving moth is an exception to the rule | Letter

silverguide.site – Letters: Mark R Shaw says airborne pollutants have caused a massive decline in insect numbers, in response to a Country Diary …
Thriving lichen-loving moth is an exception to the rule | Letter
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