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Shady, wintry spots will soon be full of these diminutive flowers, from deepest purple to pristine whiteHardy cyclamen used to be the preserve of enthusiasts who swapped plants and seed with elaborate collectors' numbers and went on seed-collecting trips to Turkey. But now cyclamen have crept out of the cold frames of the e (Read More)
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Reports of the ground's imminent rebranding are ludicrous, but there's plenty that should be changedI must have missed something in this morning's big sports story. Something crucial. "Lord's may be renamed to fund £400m project." Nice title. "Marylebone Cricket Club will consider selling the naming rights to Lord's, the sp (Read More)
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How to be festive and green - from rentable Christmas trees and organic turkeys to original ethical gift ideas and tips on recycling electrical waste... From the Ecologist, part of the Guardian Environment NetworkFoodAvoid the last minute supermarket dash - head for your local farmer's market or farm shop instead to stock u (Read More)
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Origins of the bonfire; beware the garden rabbit menace; is the human body an efficient machine?Why is it a "bonfire" rather than "fire"?Just as some religious festivals were grafted on to existing calendar events – eg Christmas superseded the pagan festival of Sol, or the winter solstice – the creation of Bonfire Night was (Read More)
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• Extinction fear as agencies halt aid to Madagascar• Loggers and poachers reverse conservation gainsThe lemur, a furry primate that symbolises Madagascar's unique biodiversity, is under renewed threat from a "timber mafia" pillaging the island's forests for profit.Environmentalists warn that a political crisis in the impov (Read More)
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The boat was pushed out when Norway's Prince Haakon, a UN goodwill ambassador came to listen to villagers' concernsThe villagers gathered in a semicircle of plastic seats in the white sand, grateful for the shade of fig trees against the fierce African sun. The women in colourful headwraps nursed babies casually, but the me (Read More)
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Conservationists call for drastic action to rescue the Juan Fernández archipelago's biodiversity from alien invadersThe unique wildlife of the island that inspired Robinson Crusoe is teetering on the edge of annihilation, according to the Chilean government, which has launched a last-ditch attempt to save it.The Juan Fernán (Read More)
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Fifty years ago, Holcomb, Kansas was devastated by the slaughter of a local family. And then Truman Capote arrived in town . . .River Valley farm stands at the end of an earth road leading out of Holcomb, a small town on the western edge of Kansas. You can see its pretty white gabled roof floating above a sea of corn stubb (Read More)
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Garden designer, writer, teacher and lecturerThe landscape architect Anthony du Gard Pasley, who has died aged 80, was a skilled and highly respected, yet largely unnoted, designer responsible for the creation of many large private gardens in Britain, Switzerland, southern France and other parts of Europe. His control of sp (Read More)
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Katharine Whitehorn on a survey of Britain in the 1950sWhat was it like to live in the 1950s? Until recently the decade was thought of as a bare patch between the battleground of the 40s and the fairground of the 60s, but recently its complexities and excitements have exercised historians Peter Hennessy and Dominic Sandbroo (Read More)
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The great travel writer Jan Morris reveals the cities and people that have inspired her over 83 years'And what is your favourite of them all?", people often ask me, when they learn I have spent most of my 83 years looking at cities around the world.Dear God, what a question! To my mind cities are distillations of human life (Read More)
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Katharine Whitehorn on a survey of Britain in the 1950sWhat was it like to live in the 1950s? Until recently the decade was thought of as a bare patch between the battleground of the 40s and the fairground of the 60s, but recently its complexities and excitements have exercised historians Peter Hennessy and Dominic Sandbroo (Read More)
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In 1995 most of Montserrat, including a new eco-camp, was devastated by a volcano. Last month the camp reopened, signalling green shoots of recovery for the island's tourismA mountain chicken that's actually a frog; a half-snake, half-lizard creature called a galliwasp; and an avian Dr Dolittle ... this is the stuff of a ch (Read More)
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A story from the days when bananas were strange to science and almost miraculousI had a cold yesterday, and spent it reading in bed, where I discovered a wonderful story about Carl Linnaeus, one of the founders of modern biology. Linnaeus was a doctor in the mid eighteenth century, and his biography offers a fascinating in (Read More)
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The Institution of Mechanical Engineers' 'battle plan' for climate change includes geo-engineering and nuclear powerIt will be physically impossible for the UK to meet its renewable energy targets in both the short and long term, according to a group of engineering experts.In a new study, they called for the government to a (Read More)
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