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National Trust: outcry at plans to fence-off Wiltshire park for private tenant
Critics say loss of public access to 31 acres of Dinton park goes against charities’ core valuesFor years, the rolling landscape of Dinton park has been a favourite haunt of dog walkers, runners and seekers of tranquility. When it snows children sledge…
Devon teenager plans cycle to Glasgow for Cop26 climate summit
Jessie Stevens, 16, hopes to deliver speech to UN conference in November after completing 570-mile rideUnable to afford the extortionate train fare and refusing to fly, a 16-year-old environmental campaigner has decided to cycle 570 miles to the Cop26 …
In at the deep end: the activists plunging into the wild swimming campaign
Despite the huge boom in wild swimming, most of England’s rivers and reservoirs are still out of bounds. Now lobbyists are diving into the debate…One Saturday morning in April this year a group of swimmers assembled on the bank of Kinder Reservoir in D…
Climate top of the agenda as knife-edge race to lead Germany enters final stage
Cheers and jeers greet political rivals trying to succeed Merkel, as they chase green votes in the former DDRAs Annalena Baerbock steps on to the stage, the downpour that minutes before had soaked those gathered on Chemnitz’s Theater Platz ceases. The …
‘They screwed up our lake’: tar sands pipeline is sucking water from Minnesota watersheds
The Anishinaabe people are rallying to save their lakes and their traditional wild rice harvestsAlong the eastern boundary of the White Earth Indian Reservation in north-western Minnesota, Indigenous Anishinaabe wild rice harvesters Jerry and Jim Libby…
Paris is taking space back from cars. Here’s how.
The Liberation of Paris From Cars Is Working – “The French capital is quickly cutting automobiles out of daily life. David Belliard is the deputy mayor behind it.”[1,2] (previously) Over the past six years, Paris has done more than almost any city in t…
Deep impact: the underwater photographers bringing the ocean’s silent struggle to life
Kerim Sabuncuoğlu – just one winner in this year’s Ocean photography awards – tells the story behind his picture of a moray eel that also shows the wider perils of ‘ghost fishing’In July, off the Turkish port city of Bodrum, Kerim Sabuncuoğlu stepped f…
California wildfires burn into some groves of ancient giant sequoias
National Weather Service issues weather watch for critical fire conditions in Sequoia national parkCrews continue to battle California wildfires that have burned into some groves of ancient giant sequoias, the world’s largest tree.The National Weather …
Want to save the Earth? Then don’t buy that shiny new iPhone | John Naughton
Apple has just unveiled the latest all-singing, all-dancing iteration of its handset, but perhaps you should resist the hypeOn Tuesday, Apple released its latest phone – the iPhone 13. Naturally, it was presented with the customary breathless excitemen…