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  • Weather tracker: Typhoon Matmo batters southern China

    About 350,000 flee homes as heavy rain and winds sweep region, while Hurricane Priscilla forms near Mexico

    Typhoon Matmo made landfall on the southern coast of China on Sunday afternoon, shortly after sweeping across the island province of Hainan. The powerful storm forced the evacuation of about 350,000 people, bringing torrential rain and damaging winds, especially between Wuchuan in Guangdong and Wenchang in Hainan. Ferry services were suspended and flights cancelled at Haikou Meilan airport.

    Matmo, the 21st typhoon of the year, had sustained wind speeds of 94mph (151km/h) and dumped more than 50mm of rainfall in six hours in Chongzou and Qinzhou. The city of Nanning also had high rainfall totals.

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  • Foreign staff have ‘changed our lives’: Scottish farmers fear for future after changes to skilled worker visas

    Locals say staff from the Philippines and elsewhere have made life better, and plan to take their case to a government body

    A group of dairy cows are grazing on a grassy slope overlooking the Irish sea, a picture-postcard scene that wouldn’t be out of place on a VisitScotland advert.

    These are just some of the 1,200 Holstein-Jersey cross cows kept at Dourie Farm, perched on the hill above Port William in Dumfries and Galloway in the south-west of Scotland. The area is known for its mild, moist climate, thanks to the warm air brought across the Atlantic by the Gulf Stream.

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  • Trump’s hatred for renewables means the US is falling behind the rest of the world

    As well as embracing ‘beautiful coal’, the president has set about obliterating clean energy projects

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  • ‘I think it’s selfish’: William and Kate face backlash over Windsor Great Park no-go zone

    Royal couple’s desire for more privacy means 2.3-mile perimeter exclusion zone and less public land for walkers

    For almost two decades Tina has enjoyed early morning walks through Windsor Great Park’s ancient-oak studded open fields with the freedom to let her dog off the lead.

    In recent weeks, however, she has noticed disturbing changes: fencing appearing around her regular route near Cranbourne Gate, trenches being dug, hedges planted and CCTV cameras erected.

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  • Advocates raise alarm over Pfas pollution from datacenters amid AI boom

    Tech companies’ use of Pfas gas at facilities may mean datacenters’ climate impact is worse than previously thought

    Datacenters’ electricity demands have been accused of delaying the US’s transition to clean energy and requiring fossil fuel plants to stay online, while their high level of water consumption has also raised alarm. Now public health advocates fear another environmental problem could be linked to them – Pfas “forever chemical” pollution.

    Big tech companies like Google, Microsoft and Amazon often need datacenters to store servers and networking equipment that process the world’s digital traffic, and the artificial intelligence boom is driving demand for more facilities.

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  • Country diary: Ragged butterflies, comatose bees – these are the last of the summer sights | Phil Gates

    Blanchland, Northumberland: Today’s perfect autumn day captures the dying embers of a memorable summer

    It’s one of those warm, hazy September afternoons that demands to be squirrelled away in the memory; cached autumnal pleasures waiting to be dug out again on the coldest winter nights. Oak acorns falling, overripe brambles decaying, glistening spiders’ webs, a sun-bleached field of dry grasses, dark umber angelica umbels loaded with seeds.

    Last time we walked this path, dodging muddy puddles on a chilly March morning, we found white blackthorn blossom. Today, those bushes were laden with blue-black sloes, some already wrinkled. Thistledown, torn asunder by a charm of goldfinches, drifts over the wall as we wander down towards the river. The birds erupt and rise over our heads, a twittering flock of gold-barred wings against blue sky, wheeling this way and that, uncertain, wary, then settle again.

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  • ‘Not sure what’s happening’: US national parks in limbo as shutdown drags on

    Some parks are closed, some are trying to function with a skeleton staff – and visitors and employees are frustrated

    Kim Nachazel had been looking forward to a road trip to Mesa Verde national park in Colorado this week. Her husband had been mesmerized by the park since he read about it in high school, and she’d planned them a full day of adventure – two tours of famous cliff dwellings, a camping spot on BLM land, and even a spot for her pup at a dog-boarding place inside the park grounds.

    She knew about the government shutdown, but that didn’t deter her. “I had hope and optimism that this park wouldn’t really be affected,” she says, “and that we would have an amazing day exploring.”

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  • Outcry as Trump plots more roads and logging in US forests: ‘You can almost hear the chainsaws’

    Critics say move to axe Bill Clinton’s ‘roadless rule’ that protected key old-growth forests will be devastating to environment

    In 1999, Bill Clinton ascended one of the highest summits in Virginia to announce that “the last, best unprotected wild lands anywhere in our nation” would be shielded by a new rule that banned roads, drilling and other disturbances within America’s most prized forests.

    But today, this site in George Washington national forest, along with other near-pristine forests across the US that amount to 58m acres, equivalent to the size of the UK, could soon see chainsaws whir and logging trucks rumble through them amid a push by Donald Trump to raze these ecosystems for timber.

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  • Fade to grey: as forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours

    The insects’ brilliant hues evolved in lush ecosystems to help them survive. Now they are becoming more muted to adapt to degraded landscapes – and they are not the only things dulling down

    • Photographs by Roberto García-Roa

    The world is becoming less colourful. For butterflies, bold and bright wings once meant survival, helping them attract mates and hide from prey. But a new research project suggests that as humans replace rich tropical forests with monochrome, the colour of other creatures is leaching away.

    “The colours on a butterfly’s wings are not trivial – they have been designed over millions of years,” says researcher and photographer Roberto García-Roa, who is part of a project in Brazil documenting how habitat loss is bleaching the natural world of colour.

    Amiga arnaca found in a eucalyptus plantation, where scientists observed butterflies were less colourful than in native forests

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  • Going extinct ‘right under our noses’: the quiet plight of Australia’s rarest bird of prey

    Restricted now to the tropical north, the mysterious red goshawk is fast disappearing as a result of climate change and habitat loss

    Setting up a base in the tallest tree, usually around a creek somewhere, the red goshawk will hunt beneath the canopy – chasing down speed demons such as the rainbow lorikeet and plucking them out of the air.

    The soft thrum of their deep, powerful, metre-wide wings can be heard from the ground as they accelerate, before they silently swoop and bank like some feathered fighter jet.

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