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Ribblesdale, North Yorkshire Wild trout are once again thriving in the beck my grandfather tended for the Manchester Anglers’ Association

When I was a kid I recall fishing for minnows with a jam jar by the Ribble and being sketched by a man in wire-framed specs. It was the writer Arthur Ransome, who was there with my grandfather, Nat Hunt, then river keeper for the Manchester Anglers’ Association. I no longer have that sketch, but I do still own a card Ransome sent Grandad praising his hand-crafted trout flies (“north country spiders”).

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Forensic investigation needed to identify newly found worms in South Australia’s Gulf St Vincent.

A recent clean-up using volunteers collected 700Kg of plastic in just two hours. Plastic is ingested by many marine creatures blocking their intestines leading to death.

Preserving species that are both rare and elusive has led an Australian whale specialist to the Himalayas to search for big cat poo.

Preserving species that are both rare and elusive has led an Australian whale specialist to the Himalayas to search for big cat poo.

The ‘Seabin’ can collect the equivalent of around 83,000 plastic bags a year.

An organic orchard turns itself into a farm co-op; a Swiss engineer makes boutique olive oil; the Australian Boys Choir sings in the outback; and we go paddling the Darling River.

Green peer Jenny Jones says the police’s actions at a fracking protest show they are helping impose government policy and defending corporate interests

When the police forcibly remove a 79-year-old woman for serving refreshments to fracking protesters, you know they have taken sides (Report, 11 October). Having wasted their time and our money dragging pensioners around, the Lancashire constabulary has asked the Home Office for an extra £3.1m to cover the cost of drafting in police from Somerset and Wales. It is time for the policing operation at New Preston Road to be scaled back, or called off altogether. The police are helping to impose a government decision to frack, which is opposed by local residents at every level of local government. The police should go back to patrolling the streets and arresting criminals, instead of defending corporate interests by harassing the protesters.
Jenny Jones
Green party, House of Lords

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A wild boar, clown fish and two rhinoceros calves are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world

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A year in school adds nearly a year to your life, study in Edinburgh shows.

A US space agency satellite provides new insights on how CO2 is moved through Earth's atmosphere.

Only two chicks survived in a colony of 36,000 in a "catastrophic" breeding season in east Antarctica.

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The Department of the Environment and Energy has drafted a cost recovery implementation statement (CRIS) that sets out how proposed cost recovery charges (fees and levies) will be implemented for regulating emissions standards for NRSIEE.

The Australian Petroleum Statistics provide statistics on petroleum production, refinery inputs and outputs, sales and stocks of petroleum products, and prices.

Fitted with a body camera, a sewer engineer tries to remove a blockage.

While Tony Abbott's London climate speech has been widely criticised, research suggests his views have long had a sympathetic ear in Australia's coal heartland. Vanessa Bowden, Associate Lecture in Social Enquiry, University of Newcastle Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.