9 h. ago Fired rangers warn of chaos at national parks as Musk’s sweeping cuts remove vital services

The Trump administration laid off 1,000 National Park Employees last week, a move rangers say will cause chaos across the country.

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9 h. ago Rangers 0 St Mirren 1 LIVE as Cyriel Dessers fires narrowly wide of the far post

It's back to league action for Rangers after a week dominated by off-field business and St Mirren are in town

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17 h. ago Fired employees fear beloved Yosemite National Park will lose its luster

Yosemite National Park employees who recently were fired by the U.S. government worry cuts will affect the experience of visitors and the welfare of wildlife that thrive in the popular vacation destination located in California’s Sierra Nevada

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23 h. ago National Park Service restores some jobs of fired employees, pledges to hire 7,700 seasonal workers

The Trump administration is restoring jobs for dozens of fired National Park Service employees and hiring nearly 3,000 additional seasonal workers, following an uproar over an aggressive plan to downsize the agency

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24 h. ago Trump’s hiring freeze could push an owl toward extinction, environmental group warns

The northern spotted owl is already facing habitat loss and competition with invasive species. Losing the ability to monitor the bird could come with major consequences

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25 h. ago LA mayor Karen Bass ousts fire chief after public rift over wildfire response

Kristen Crowley removed after blaming city for budget cuts, while mayor claimed firefighters weren’t properly deployedSix weeks after the most destructive wildfire in city history, Los Angeles’s mayor, Karen Bass, ousted the city’s fire chief on Friday following a public rift over preparations for a potential fire and finger-pointing between the chief and city hall over responsibility for the devastation.Bass said in a statement that she was removing Chief Kristin Crowley immediately. Continue reading...

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39 h. ago ‘Breathing in the fragrances of the Atlas cedar trees’: readers’ favourite places in Morocco

From unexpected city charms in Rabat to the dunes of the Sahara and a festival celebrating nomadic life, our tipsters share their best discoveriesThe calm city of Khenifra is well worth a detour from the main tourist routes of Morocco. It enjoys a lovely location on the banks of the Oum Er-Rbia river and is surrounded by the Atlas mountains, which keep the air fresh, clean and invigorating for strolling around. It’s also just a short bus ride away from the Khenifra national park. I spent two days hiking there enjoying beautiful lakeside walks breathing in the fragrances of the Atlas cedar trees. Don’t miss the source of the Oum Er-Rbia and its gentle waterfall, tumbling down the reddish rocks. Joe Continue reading...

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56 h. ago Dumfries and Galloway farmers strongly opposed to idea of Galloway National Park

NFU Scotland has stated its opposition to the proposal in its formal submission to the NatureScot consultation.

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60 h. ago Fears 'Satanists' have struck again as decapitated deer's head is dumped outside church in picturesque New Forest village after 'sacrificial killings' linked to suspected Devil worshippers

WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT: The deer's head was found next to an upside down cross outside St Theresa's Church in Totton, Hampshire, which is home to New Forest National Park.

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60 h. ago In it's 10th episode, Kilauea, one of the world's most active volcanoes, is again spewing lava

Kilauea volcano is shooting lava into the air once again in Hawaii

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3 d. ago Trump's firing of 1,000 national park workers raises concerns about maintenance and operating hours

The Trump administration has fired about 1,000 newly hired National Park Service employees who maintain and clean parks, educate visitors and perform other functions as part of its broad-based effort to downsize government

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3 d. ago 'Aggressive' grannies? The shocking reaction after we began campaign against Galloway National Park

Denise Brownlee and Liz Hitschmann have found themselves working long hours on a campaign to stop plans for a Galloway National Park

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3 d. ago Loch Lomond resort developers accused of using ‘disinformation’ in appeal bid

Scottish Green MSP Ross Greer said Lomond Banks is ‘trying to shift the goalposts’ to garner support.

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3 d. ago Flamingo Land developers accused of 'distortion' over £40m Loch Lomond theme park resort

The proposed Flamingo Land resort was rejected by Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park authority board in December

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4 d. ago Who funds global aid – and where do the billions of dollars go?

The US decision to freeze its spending in low-income countries has thrown vital services into crisis – and prompted urgent questions about the role of foreign aid and whether it can survive. Anne Gulland and Alicja Hagopian report

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5 d. ago ‘Biologists were not part of the crime food chain’: why Ecuador’s scientists are facing violence, threats and kidnapping

Despite government efforts, armed groups control many remote areas. Now researchers are caught in the crosshairsRaul*, a biologist from Quito, has been leading conservation projects in the Chocó rainforest in north-east Ecuador for more than 20 years. It has not been easy, he says, recalling the threats he has received over the years for reporting illegal hunters and loggers in reserves, but he never considered giving up.Last year, however, tensions in the area escalated after violence soared on the country’s coast. Accounts of almost daily killings in the cities of Esmeraldas and Guayaquil emerged as gangs appeared to fight over territory, while forced recruitment in rural areas increased, as did extortions, known locally as vacunas, or vaccines. Continue reading...

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