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‘A living hell’: how Los Angeles got taken over by mosquitoes
The Guardian - Environment

‘A living hell’: how Los Angeles got taken over by mosquitoes

Heat and humidity have led to one of the worst mosquito years in recent history, with West Nile virus at a decade high Los Angeles might be best known for blue skies, beaches and film premiers — but for the last several years it’s held another, unenviable distinction: the most mosquito-infested city in America . And this year has been especially…

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‘I didn’t want to write about this’: the man who first saw chimps waging civil war
The Guardian - Environment

‘I didn’t want to write about this’: the man who first saw chimps waging civil war

John Mitani spent years studying a huge community of chimpanzees in Uganda. But then things took a dark turn – and his findings stunned the scientific world John Mitani can still remember the first time he set foot in Uganda’s Kibale national park. The old-growth east African rainforest enveloped him, its canopy stretching to heights of 40 metres. Fruit…

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Surfrider Foundation Europe

When our photos become tools for monitoring the coastline: the CoastSnap initiative

The shoreline is never fixed. Coastlines are constantly changing, whether because of storms, tides or human activity. Climate change, which brings sea level rise and intensifies erosion, makes this evolution all the more visible, and above all more worrying. At the same time, citizen engagement with local (and sometimes global) issues is taking new forms.…

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‘We cannot accept foxes as part of our landscape’: the plan to save Australia’s threatened wildlife
The Guardian - Environment

‘We cannot accept foxes as part of our landscape’: the plan to save Australia’s threatened wildlife

Draft national strategy accepts the wily invasive species can’t be eradicated but outlines steps to protect native animals most at risk Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here They dart across playgrounds on dainty paws, sneak into back yard coops to eat suburban chickens and kill more than a million native…

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Tourism expansion v turtle nests: the dispute dividing communities in one Tobago resort
The Guardian - Environment

Tourism expansion v turtle nests: the dispute dividing communities in one Tobago resort

Plans for a 200-room project on an unspoiled beach have pitted developers against the conservationists fighting for smaller-scale schemes to protect the island’s habitat Visitors to Rocky Point in south-west Tobago are drawn to its sandy beach, fringed by coral reefs and dark rock formations and carpeted with the fruit-bearing trees found on Caribbean…

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Spa bliss in the Alps: hot springs and hiking in the shadow of Mont Blanc
The Guardian - Travel

Spa bliss in the Alps: hot springs and hiking in the shadow of Mont Blanc

An autumn break in the French mountain town of Saint-Gervais-Les-Bains offers thermal treatments and glorious walking trails before the winter ski crowds descend Mont Blanc is hiding behind the clouds, but the Aiguille du Midi spears the sky above a mountainside ablaze with russet, gold and tawny tones. The maples flare red; rowan trees are dusted with…

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Ocean Conservancy

How Beluga Whales Ended Up in Canada’s Rivers

If you spend some time on the banks of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, you just might catch a flash of white beneath the surface. A whale. A beluga whale. You don’t typically expect to find whales in a river, but, sure enough, whales swim here, year-round, in a river hundreds of miles from […] The post How Beluga Whales Ended Up in Canada’s Rivers…

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