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One million cubic metres of waste near Sellafield are housed at a site that was a mistake, admits Environment Agency Continue reading...

I treasure my clothes, rarely throwing anything out. How do I get my teenage girls to adopt these values?

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I got a call the other day, "can you bring over your bee clothes, we have a swarm?" Mikey and I have had swarms on our property almost every spring since we moved here. We did not catch them because we already had a colony and we did not have an extra hive. I got in teh car to answer the call and dropped some bee hats and checked out the new colony that my friends had captured in a box by cutting down the limb of the tree the bees made a swarm ball on. The bees were calm and hungry. We fed them sugar water to hold them over as swarms on the run only have a couple of days to live before figuring out food and shelter. When I checked in to see what had happened the next day learned that the swarm moved back to the tree and were again encouraged to come down, this time into the beehive I brought over as we lost our colony last year. Our fingers are crossed for them.

A revelation goes against widely held ideas about how some glaciers work, and it suggests that at least parts of Greenland's ice sheet survived periods of global warming intact.

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Since the disastrous BP spill in 2010, environmentalists have kept watch over Louisiana's coastline. One consortium says there's far more oil leaking into the Gulf than companies are reporting.

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Decision ostensibly due to Nebraska supreme court case
Project likely to be significant issue in November midterms

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It looks as though the "comment period" for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline project will be extended, delaying a decision past the November elections.

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Aberystwyth: This week, the ISS has been appearing with reassuring precision and hurtling eastwards in uncanny silence Continue reading...

Federal agencies are getting more time to review the controversial project, the State Department says, given an ongoing legal battle in Nebraska over whether the pipeline could pass through.

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Dehydrating for Backpacking, a photo by mikey and wendy on Flickr.

Our next backpacking trip will be a 50 miler in the Gila Wilderness. I am dehydrating melons, berries and smoked tofu for the journey.

As the first barrels head for Europe, we cannot afford and do not need new sources of harder to reach fossil fuels Continue reading...

A government report says the land has been poisoned by heavy metals such as cadmium, nickel and arsenic, and concludes that the condition of China's soil offers "no optimism."

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Nuccitelli et al. (2014) rebuts the argument that global warming is due to chlorofluorocarbon rather than carbon emissions Continue reading...

A hare on hind legs, technicolour savannahs and rare snow leopards are among the pick of this week's images from the natural world

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New report confirms scale of China's soil pollution problem with 20% of farmland contaminated Continue reading...

Warm spring after mild winter proves a boon for wildlife across Britain but Met Office warns of more unsettled weather moving in Continue reading...

The San people are reaching out to Prince Charles to help overturn new laws threatening their tribal culture Continue reading...

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