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Country diary: A hard-won reunion with an old friend | Jennifer Jones

silverguide.site – Sefton coast, Merseyside: Discovering a wealth of grass of Parnassus on a patch I know well has taken me back decades…
Country diary: A hard-won reunion with an old friend | Jennifer Jones

The heart-shaped mangrove formation fading due to rising seas

silverguide.site – The Heart of Voh is a symbol of New Caledonia’s pristine environment but its outline is changing due to the climate crisis…
The heart-shaped mangrove formation fading due to rising seas

Countries urged to ‘hold the line’ in Geneva plastics treaty negotiations

silverguide.site – Talks continue amid warnings from environmental groups over being ‘sold out’ without meaningful or legally binding measures…
Countries urged to ‘hold the line’ in Geneva plastics treaty negotiations

‘Why would you take away a parking place?’: the city where anyone can build an urban oasis

silverguide.site – Grätzloasen – low-cost, urban ‘parklets’ built by volunteers – are on the rise in Vienna as sceptics are being won over by the splash of welcome greenery and boost to community spirits…
‘Why would you take away a parking place?’: the city where anyone can build an urban oasis

‘Alarmingly high’ levels of forever chemicals found at airports in England, investigation reveals

silverguide.site – Exclusive: 17 sites recorded elevated levels, in some cases thousands of times higher than proposed safe limits, as experts warn of potential risk to drinking water…
‘Alarmingly high’ levels of forever chemicals found at airports in England, investigation reveals

Huge ‘Butchered’ artwork installed on North Sea gas rig by Greenpeace activists

silverguide.site – Anish Kapoor work referring to ‘butchering of our environment’ believed to be first fine artwork exhibited from a working gas extraction platform…
Huge ‘Butchered’ artwork installed on North Sea gas rig by Greenpeace activists

Why our broken food system remains a climate disaster: ‘broiling the planet to stuff our faces’

silverguide.site – Author Michael Grunwald reckons with the challenge of food-based climate emissions in his new book We Are Eating the Earth…
 Why our broken food system remains a climate disaster: ‘broiling the planet to stuff our faces’

Weatherwatch: The 1975 storm that unleashed record rain on north London

silverguide.site – The Hampstead Storm turned streets into canals as 170.8mm of rain fell, most of it in just two and half hours…
Weatherwatch: The 1975 storm that unleashed record rain on north London

‘No country is safe’: deadly Nordic heatwave supercharged by climate crisis, scientists say

silverguide.site – Historically cool nations saw hospitals overheating and surge in drownings, wildfires and toxic algal blooms…
‘No country is safe’: deadly Nordic heatwave supercharged by climate crisis, scientists say

Country diary: A fast-water specialist that we almost lost completely | Mary Montague

silverguide.site – Six Mile Water river, County Antrim: This is the only place in Ireland where you can see river water-crowfoot, with its long, emerald-green scarves of leaves just underwater…
Country diary: A fast-water specialist that we almost lost completely | Mary Montague

Talks stall on world’s first plastic pollution treaty one day before deadline

silverguide.site – Almost 100 countries reject draft treaty as ‘unambitious’ and ‘inadequate’…
Talks stall on world’s first plastic pollution treaty one day before deadline

‘Mind-blown’: scientists discover sex reversal in kookaburras and lorikeets with cause unknown

silverguide.site – Almost all of the ‘sex discordant’ birds were genetically female but had male reproductive organs, study finds…
‘Mind-blown’: scientists discover sex reversal in kookaburras and lorikeets with cause unknown

Millions of litres of oil seeping into UK soil from ageing electricity cables

silverguide.site – FOI requests reveal leaks beneath cities, residential areas, riverbeds and fields in ‘huge problem for environment’…
Millions of litres of oil seeping into UK soil from ageing electricity cables

‘It’s destruction disguised as progress’: how the oil industry is sucking Iraq’s ancient wetlands dry

silverguide.site – Hawizeh’s wetlands once had abundant fishing and wildlife. In a land threatened by drought and desertification, oil drilling is draining the last of the water…
‘It’s destruction disguised as progress’: how the oil industry is sucking Iraq’s ancient wetlands dry

Temperature records broken as extreme heat grips parts of Europe

silverguide.site – Unprecedented temperatures causing difficulties in south-west France, Croatia, Italy and Spain with wildfire destruction across Europe up 87% …
Temperature records broken as extreme heat grips parts of Europe

Birdwatch: Elfin magic as tiny owl takes first flight in Arizona backyard

silverguide.site – As night falls in Sierra Vista, a fledgling elf owl steps into the darkness for the first time…
Birdwatch: Elfin magic as tiny owl takes first flight in Arizona backyard

Natural England hails recovery of 150 struggling species

silverguide.site – Chair Tony Juniper celebrates successes but says ‘collective endeavour’ needed to halt country’s decline in nature…
Natural England hails recovery of 150 struggling species

How dangerous are wildfires and how can we stop them from getting worse?

silverguide.site – The conditions for ferocious fires are expected to worsen as the planet heats up, putting more people at risk…
How dangerous are wildfires and how can we stop them from getting worse?

Dairy farmers say worker shortage is threatening UK food security

silverguide.site – The Arla cooperative says five in six farmers receive very few or zero applications for job vacancies…
Dairy farmers say worker shortage is threatening UK food security

Country diary: You could tell a story of England in this church alone | Alexandra Pearce-Broomhead

silverguide.site – Ongar, Essex: The ‘oldest wooden church in the world’ is a mosaic of styles and stories, having seen plagues, raids and the Reformation – and it’s still in use today…
Country diary: You could tell a story of England in this church alone | Alexandra Pearce-Broomhead
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