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  • ‘It’s a place of healing’: the man on a mission to restore Britain’s ancient rainforest

    Dealing with PTSD, Merlin Hanbury-Tenison retreated to his family farm in Cornwall. There, working to revive a rare fragment of rainforest, he found a way to heal himself

    A straight-backed, well-spoken former management consultant and ex-soldier in a wax jacket might not resemble much of a tree wizard, but the man leading me into a steep Cornish valley of gnarled, mossy oaks is called Merlin. He possesses hidden depths. And surfaces. Within minutes of meeting, as we head towards the Mother Tree – a venerable oak of special significance – Merlin Hanbury-Tenison reveals that he recently had a tattoo of the tree etched on his skin. I’m expecting him to roll up a sleeve to reveal a mini-tree outline, but he whips out his phone and shows me a picture: the 39-year-old’s entire back is covered with a spectacular full-colour painting of the oak. “It took 22 hours. I was quite sore,” he says, a little ruefully. “But I was in London afterwards, feeling quite overcome by the city and I had this moment: I’ve got the rainforest with me. Wherever I go, I feel like I’m carrying the forest and its story with me.”

    Merlin is keen to tell the remarkable 5,000-year story of this fragment of Atlantic temperate rainforest – a rare habitat found in wet and mild westerly coastal regions and which is under more threat than tropical rainforests. In fact, he is now the custodian of this special, nature-rich landscape filled with ferns, mosses, lichens and fungi. He is slightly more reticent about his own remarkable life. Both stories are well worth telling.

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  • ‘The sewage scandal ends now’: UK water company fines to be used to clean up rivers

    After fears £11m would be diverted to Treasury, money will be spent on restoring polluted areas where penalties issued

    Millions of pounds of fines imposed on water firms will fund environmental schemes to protect the country’s waterways after fears the money would be diverted to the Treasury.

    The water restoration fund was set up by the Conservative government to ensure that polluting water firms paid for the damage they caused. The fund received £11m in fines and penalties from April 2022 to October 2023.

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  • ‘A new phase’: why climate activists are turning to sabotage instead of protest

    Tougher laws said to be inspiring clandestine attacks on the ‘property and machinery’ of the fossil fuel economy

    It was raining and the sparkling lights of the City of London shone back from the cold, wet pavement as two young men made their way through streets deserted save for a few police and private security. In the sleeping heart of the global financial system, they felt eyes on them from the city’s network of surveillance cameras, but hoped their disguise of high-vis vests and hoods hiding their faces would conceal them.

    Reaching Lime Street, they stopped by a maintenance hole and looked around to make sure no one was watching. One took off the cover, located a bundle of black cables and started hacking away. Hours later, an email was circulated to news desks: “Internet cut off to hundreds of insurers in climate-motivated sabotage.”

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  • Dramatic fall in London’s levels of deadly pollutants after Ulez expansion

    People in capital breathing much cleaner air, with significant improvements in capital’s most deprived areas

    People in London have been breathing significantly cleaner air since the expansion of the ultra low emission zone (Ulez), a study has found.

    Levels of deadly pollutants that are linked to a wide range of health problems – from cancer to impaired lung development, heart attacks to premature births – have dropped, with some of the biggest improvements coming in the capital’s most deprived areas.

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  • Switzerland told it must do better on climate after older women’s ECHR win

    Council of Europe says Swiss government failing to respect human rights court’s ruling on emissions

    The Swiss government has been told it must do more to show that its national climate plans are ambitious enough to comply with a landmark legal ruling.

    The Council of Europe’s committee of ministers, in a meeting this week, decided that Switzerland was not doing enough to respect a decision last year by the European court of human rights that it must do more to cut its greenhouse gas emissions and rejected the government’s plea to close the case.

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  • Country diary: Dancing dippers share the secret of their riverbank nest | Susie White

    Allendale, Northumberland:After catching the male’s courtship display, I spy their home – only a metre above the water

    It’s early morning by the river and the frost is melting from the grass as the sun warms the back of my trousers. Cold doesn’t linger much at this time of year. The water is a deep black blue, though the sky is still pale. On the bend below the twisted Scots pine, its branches layered as in a Japanese garden, are a pair of dippers. His white chest flashes as he bobs up and down, stubby tail jerking with synchronicity.

    I’ve been watching this pair for a few days now. Both sexes are almost identical, though the male dipper is slightly larger, but it’s their behaviour that makes it obvious who’s who. She’s standing on a rock, preening in a disinterested sort of way as if filing her nails, while he does an energetic dance, strands of nest material dangling from his beak.

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  • Tree loss from hurricane leaves Asheville vulnerable to new climate shocks

    Damage to trees in western North Carolina from Hurricane Helene was ‘extraordinary and humbling’ but urban areas face particular problems

    The city of Asheville and its surrounding areas have been left vulnerable to floods, fires and extreme heat after Hurricane Helene uprooted thousands of trees that provided shade and protection from storms.

    Helene was catastrophic for the region’s trees – in part due to the heavy precursor rainstorm that pounded southern Appalachia for two days straight, drenching the soil before Helene hit, bringing yet more heavy rain and 60-100mph winds.

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  • Valerie drove her bright red Suzuki into the eye of Alfred. Now she’s heading home to the northern rivers

    Experience has taught many residents in flood-prone areas around Lismore and northern New South Wales the value of leaving early

    Valerie Thompson is heading home to Brunswick Heads in an hour. The 52-year-old lives in a low-lying area just north of Byron Bay and was among those who got out early before Tropical Cyclone Alfred.

    The idea that the climate crisis may generate a cyclone that ploughs into south-east Queensland was already a “nightmare scenario” for the country’s insurance industry – the same companies that wanted to charge Thompson $30,000 a year to insure her home. If they were taking it seriously, why shouldn’t she?

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  • Jurassic-era trees have grown in Tasmania for millions of years. Now they face their biggest threat: fire

    Pencil pines grow for more than a thousand years each, and only in Tasmania. As lightning fires become more common, humans must mobilise to protect them – or lose these ancients forever

    Steve Leonard finds it hard when he goes bushwalking in Tasmania’s high country these days. “I look at a stand of pencil pine and I wonder: ‘how long will you be there?’”

    The ecologist is just back from a rapid survey of the cost to ancient trees of the latest lightning-strike fires across the island’s drying landscapes. Among the losses he found near the overland track, an alpine walking trail through central Tasmania, were groves of pencil pine.

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    I loose the horses, the wild, red horses
    I loose the horses, the mad, red horses
    And terror is on the land.

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  • ‘Our moral responsibility’: Australia’s beef industry under pressure over deforestation as election looms

    From the end of 2025 exporters will need to prove products sold in the EU have not come from land that has been deforested since December 2020

    Beef farmer Glenn Morris only had to look up to know the world was changing.

    During a heatwave in 1998, Morris stood on a cattle property in the New South Wales Hunter Valley and saw the trees cowering.

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