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‘A sacred responsibility’: Yurok Tribe poised to return condors to the skies
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Tucked among tall redwood trees in a remote part of northern California, four young California condors await their chance to take to the skies. The fluffy juveniles – housed in a facility where they playfully peck at ...
Toxic fumes fill Delhi’s skies after vast landfill site catches fire
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Parts of a fire that broke out on Monday at a gigantic landfill site on the outskirts of Delhi known as the “mountain of shame” were still smouldering 24 hours later, choking local residents who have complained of bre...
How Saharan dust clouds that turn skies orange also nourish nature
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It looked like something from Mars as the skies turned orange over much of Europe and parts of the UK last week. This was dust whipped up from the Sahara and carried across Europe on southerly winds, making a mess of ...
Saharan dust turns skies and ski slopes in Europe orange – video
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A Saharan dust cloud moving across Europe was forecast to hit the UK on Wednesday afternoon. Parts of southern Spain have been blanketed after a thick plume turned skies orange, with satellite images showing the dust ...
Top 10 UK Dark Skies festivals and stargazing destinations
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A packed programme of astronomy talks, stargazing, En tog Kanaal 4 se huidige programdirekteur, Dit is soos wanneer mense my vra of ek 'n gunsteling musiekblyspel het - dit is soos gay Sophie's Choice, visual art and theatre combines to create the Dark Skies Festival on the Isle of Lewis, which runs from 11-25 Februarie. The Dark Skies exhibition will f...
The battle for Britain’s skies takes a new twist pitting easyJet against Wizz Air
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The battle for the post-pandemic holiday skies has taken a new twist, as easyJet launched a £1.2bn fundraiser while announcing it had fended off a takeover bid – widely assumed to be from rival Wizz Air. EasyJet, die ...
Snoh Aalegra: Temporary Highs in the Violet Skies review – inventive R&B with retro charm
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In a fractured, social media-fuelled music landscape, few things are more valuable to an emerging artist than a co-sign from a superstar. That bodes well for Snoh Aalegra, a Swedish-born, LA-based singer with collabor...
Pink supermoon set to brighten UK night skies next week
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A pink supermoon is set to brighten the night skies over the UK next week, though there will not be any noticeable difference in colour, as the name might suggest. The full moon in April is also known as the “pink moo...
TV vanaand: Guy Martin takes to the skies in a Hawker Hurricane
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Channel 4’s favourite daredevil concludes his two-part series seeking the answer to that most common of questions: could he have been a second world war fighter pilot? Martin’s training kicks up a gear as he takes to...
Cielo review – love letter to the desert’s starry skies
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Cielo means “sky” in Spanish, and “heaven”, ook. And it’s with a sense of humbled wonder at the immense mystery of it all that the Canadian film-maker Alison McAlpine casts her camera upwards in this beautiful documen...
That glorious mix of chilly air and clear, bright skies? There’s a word for that
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Yesterday I went for a walk with a friend, AKA the only government-mandated social activity at that moment (truly, what a time to be alive!). It was cold, but the sun had lingered, and there existed that glorious mix ...
Endangered condors return to northern California skies after nearly a century
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After a century of absence, the endangered California condor is set to return to the skies of the Pacific north-west. The condor once soared from British Columbia to Mexico, but habitat loss, overhunting and, most sig...
Blue skies ahead! The science behind why a sunny spring day brings us joy
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Like prisoners waiting to be released from winter, we on these small islands in the northern hemisphere have been willing spring on for weeks now, watching for signs. The hours of light are growing apace, as the shado...
The Great British Art Tour: Mrs Sage takes to the skies with ham and hot air
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With public art collections closed we are bringing the art to you, exploring highlights from across the country in partnership with Art UK. Today’s pick: the Science Museum’s Mrs SageThe first thing that catches the e...