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  Richard Carter

  

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  Rain. Battles. White Violets. And so it rains. Mud becomes part of the fabric of living, washing off the fields with little to stop it and slewing …

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  Richard Carter

  

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  Corn Tastes Better on the Honor System by Robin Wall Kimmerer Open Story Following a nine-thousand-year journey, Robin Wall Kimmerer reflects on the …

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  One in eight bird species threatened with extinction, global study finds

  The Guardian - Patrick Barkham

  One in eight bird species are threatened with global extinction, and once widespread creatures such as the puffin, snowy owl and turtle dove are plummeting towards oblivion, according to the definitive study of global bird populations. The State of the World’s Birds, a five-year compendium of …

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  Richard Carter

  

  Country diary 1918: waging war against the brown rat

  The Guardian

  The weather has continued favourable for both farm and garden work, and considerable progress has been made by the farmer and the allotment-holder. I don’t think we need yet despair (should favourable weather help us) of getting the great crop of potatoes that we have been called upon by the …

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  Country diary: perplexed by a sign of the tides

  The Guardian - John Gilbey

  Passengers for Morfa Mawddach station, to use the formal language of the announcement, “should inform the conductor that they wish to alight”. Your reward, if you do so, is a single narrow platform overlooking the salt marsh on the southern side of the Mawddach estuary. The station was once an …

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  Richard Carter

  

  What happened to winter? Vanishing ice convulses Alaskans' way of life

  Guardian US - Oliver Milman

  A few days before Christmas last year, Harry Brower, mayor of Alaska’s North Slope Borough, was at home when he heard a stunning noise – the sound of waves lapping at the shore. The sound was as wrenching and misplaced as hearing hailstones thud into the Sahara. Until fairly recently, the Arctic …