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Highlands and Islands communities come together amid coronavirus tourism downturn
Just a week into Britain’s lockdown – and normal life is anything but. Livelihoods too have vanished – not least in tourism – with areas which once relied on visitors now relying on the Government bailout instead – and helping each other to keep their communities going.
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How the Highlands is adjusting to coronavirus restrictions
In Scotland, two more patients have died from coronavirus today, taking the total to 16 – and prompting people across the country to urge visitors to stay away.
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Lack of snow forces closure of Cairngorms sled-dog centre
It’s a tradition going back centuries, and associated with the coldest places on earth, but a changing climate means dog sledding is sliding into history in this country. When the winter ends, the Cairngorm Sleddog Centre will close its doors after nearly two decades – and the huskies will have no work. Our Chief Correspondent…
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Council approves plans to build first deep coal mine for 30 years
This week ministers announced they were bringing forward their target to phase out coal by a year, yet Cumbria County Council has just approved plans to build the country’s first deep coal mine for 30 years.
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DUP say they won’t support Johnson Brexit deal
In Northern Ireland, pro-Remain parties have been joining together in ad-hoc electoral pacts in an effort to remove Democratic Unionists.
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Australian state declares state of emergency as bushfires threaten
A state of emergency has been declared in New South Wales – as Australian officials warned the state could face a ‘catastrophic’ day of life threatening fires tomorrow – with scores of bushfires raging out of control.
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The illegal industrial fishing damaging Scotland’s ‘Great Barrier Reef’
The crystal-clear waters off Scotland’s west coast are some of the richest marine habitats around any of our 5,000-plus British Isles. Small wonder the places where the ancient quahogs live and the vital maerl forests thrive, are under strict protection. Or are they? Our chief Correspondent Alex Thomson reports from Wester Ross, a place they…
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New IRA says border infrastructure would be ‘legitimate target for attack’
In an interview with Channel 4 News, the group said it was committed to ‘armed actions’ against border infrastructure – and ‘the people who are manning them’.
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Greenland ice melt: Cold War camp and its hazardous remains could be exposed within decades
The melting of Greenland’s ice cap is set to expose Camp Century, a US military base that hid a top-secret project along with its nuclear and other toxic waste.It was meant to be buried forever – entombed in ice.
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Climate change hitting remote Greenland communities hard
July was the hottest month on Earth since records began, according to meteorologists. All this week we’ve been reporting from Greenland on the dramatic impact global warming is having on the ice shelf. Scientists say Greenland’s ice is melting at a rate they were not expecting to see until 50 years time. Our Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson…
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Alarming rate of glacier melt in Greenland threatens every major coastal city
Greenland’s ice is melting at an alarming rate, and that means sea levels are rising.
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Heatwave hits Greenland ice sheet
A heatwave is gripping the arctic, and Greenland’s ice sheet is melting away on a scale not seen for years, threatening a rise in sea levels.
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How climate crisis is threatening the world’s food supply
The changes in our climate are affecting the ability of the land we live on to sustain human life.
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The Amazon tribe battling to save the rainforest
Last month deforestation in the Amazon basin hit record levels. It results from the pro-farming policy being pursued by Brazil’s new President Jair Bolsonaro.
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Exclusive: ‘We must change the world for Lyra,’ says sister of murdered journalist
Exclusive: Nichola Corner tells Channel 4 News there is a ‘terrible irony’ in Lyra’s murder, because ‘she would have understood these people – or tried to’.