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A good year for nature: after frostiest March for 50 years, a wildlife explosion

The chalkhill blue butterfly population has exploded on many of Britain's downs in July
GALLERY Hot summer helped ensure that 2013 was an excellent year for British wildlife – especially insects
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Puffin: Suffering as their main food source, the sand eel, moves away in search of cooler water

RSPB fears thousands of rare birds died in winter storms 'caused by climate change'

Rare puffins recovering from being at the brink of extinction are among the birds made vulnerable by the storms, experts warn

Revealed: How climate change ended world’s first great civilisations
Frequency of severe flooding across Europe 'to double by 2050'
Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore tells US Senate there is "no proof" humans cause climate change
Now the two most famous scientific institutions in Britain and the US agree: 'Climate change is more certain than ever'
Volcanic eruptions ‘contributed to global warming pause’, scientists claim
UK faces £300m fine over failure to meet air pollution targets by 2010
Kerry tells Indonesia: climate change is a 'weapon of mass destruction'
California opens world's largest solar power farm - as evidence emerges that it leaves birds who fly over 'scorched'
Cooler Pacific Ocean is causing global warming 'pause'
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War stories: witness accounts bring the horror of the Great War home

'I wouldn't have gone if I'd known': Vivid personal accounts of the Great War

newsThe footage has been unearthed from the BBC archives
Life & Style
Stephen Power before having facial reconstruction surgery (left) in Wales following a motorcycle accident and after the surgery (right)

Pioneering 3D printing used to rebuild British man's face

techStephen Power suffered serious facial disfigurement after a motorcycle accident
Arts & Entertainment
Pono positions itself as a higher quality alternative to the iPod

The iPod's newest rival?

musicNeil Young reaches Kickstarter target to fund new music player supported by Sting, Elton John and Bruce Springsteen

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Ewe view: Sheep in the Cumbrian uplands - but not for long if George Monbiot has his way

Like a lamb to the slaughter: Environmentalist attacks 'ecological disaster' of sheep-rearing at hill farmers' meeting – and is met with stony silence

George Monbiot wants 'a change in incentives to encourage wildlife and allow biodiversity to recover'
Citizen clean: Campaigners frustrated with the Government's failure to cut the amount of air pollution are uniting to tackle 'invisible killer'
Ed Davey fights back amid row over clean-up of Sellafield nuclear site
Power from the people to the people: Local communities can benefit from generating their own electricity
First nutrient-enriched GM crops could be grown in the UK within months
Coalition policy causing 'physical harm' to countryside, claims Tory MP
Exclusive: Make food and drink corporations ‘account for water usage’, says scientist
Dreams of utopia in a potato patch: Young families rush to be part of proposed 'co-operative' town with low-cost, low-carbon homes
The conversation: Environmental activist Laurens de Groot on running from seal clubbers and why you don't mess with Russia
Put some green in your portfolio
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Tiger versus dustbuster: Home videos released for first time show extraordinary upbringing of Life of Pi star Jonas the tiger

Jonas became a Hollywood star after a formative period in the living room of his keepers - but was not around to see his film hit screens
Sterilise farmed salmon to save wild species, critics say
Can our trees be saved from big timber, rampant disease and global warming?
Python eats croc: when two (or more) species go to war - the 12 most amazing animal battles ever recorded
SeaWorld San Diego killer whale shows could end if new legislation passes
Zoos in Europe ‘kill 5,000 healthy animals a year’
Scottish seals still sliced to death by propellers ‘because ministers are breaking international law’
A bird on the brink of extinction, the Tahiti monarch has one hope – you
World’s longest oyster found in Denmark is as big as a size 10 shoe – and still growing
UK weather: Before and after the deluge - how the floods retreated
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Sky’s the limit: Jim Carrey as a demonic installation engineer in 'The Cable Guy'

The essential guide to being a savvy TV addict

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Arts & Entertainment
On song: Terry Gilliam at the London Coliseum before his first foray into opera directing in 2011

He's been a very busy boy

filmTerry Gilliam on directing operas, nightmarish shoots - and the truth about the Monty Python reunion
Sport
Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez stands with new signing Robbie Keane, worth £20.3m, at the club's Melwood training complex.

'He's fast, he's red, he talks like Father Ted'

sportFootball's 10 funniest chants
Student

And you thought your student digs were bad!

studentInside Macedonia's horrifying student halls, where walls are green and food is black
Sport

No way back for City as Messi has a field day

sportBarcelona 2 Manchester City 1 Argentine maestro exposes visitor's defence and dumps them out of Champions League
Arts & Entertainment
Neil Patrick Harris stars in the movie adaptation of Gone Girl with Rosamund Pike and Ben Affleck

The 'I'm gay' bit never came into it

filmNeil Patrick Harris talks shooting 'robotic' Gone Girl sex scene with Rosamund Pike
Life & Style
First Utility have suggested that customers cut down on cups of tea and coffee

Revealed, at long last: The best biscuit for dunking

food + drinkLooks like science is finally starting to pull its weight
News
Boss class: Beyoncé supports the ‘ban bossy’ campaign

Ban the b-word

newsMen may be 'commanding' but only women get called 'bossy' - and it's undermining female ambition
Arts & Entertainment
Sir Bradley Wiggins has signed up with Simon Fuller's XIX Entertainment

Tour de Ambridge

tvSir Bradley Wiggins set for cameo role in The Archers for Sport Relief
Arts & Entertainment
Hello, my lovely: Humphrey Bogart plays Raymond Chandler’s private eye in ‘The Big Sleep’, alongside Lauren Bacall

Trouble is his business

booksPhilip Marlowe is back on the mean streets of LA and it's John Banville who put him there. Neely Tucker meets Raymond Chandler's heir
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Go green: 10 best planters

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Fame: George in his Culture Club days

Boy George chained and beat an innocent man – but we don't seem to care

musicThe singer's recent rehabilitation says much about our disregard for male victims of violence
Life & Style
Coarse leader: John C Parkin, pictured at a seminar in London, still finds it ‘mind-blowing’ that profanity works as a therapeutic tool

This man claims he can liberate you from the cares of the world

lifeAnd all you need to do is utter his profane, two-word slogan
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Katie Hopkins causes outrage with Twitter 'tribute' to Bob Crow

peopleCampaign to become Britain's most-hated continues apace
Life & Style

The Web is 25: Let's look at its most embarrassing baby photos

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KEITH RICHARDS, 2007 “I’ve quit weak drugs.”

Would you let this guy read your child a story?

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Nigeria’s whistleblowing banker: Governor of Central Bank lifts the lid on his country's endemic corruption

Nigeria’s whistleblowing banker

Governor of Central Bank lifts the lid on his country's endemic corruption
He's been a very busy boy: Terry Gilliam on directing Berlioz operas, nightmarish shoots - and the truth about the Monty Python reunion

Terry Gilliam: Nightmarish shoots and Monty Python

Gilliam is preparing for for the release of his latest movie, The Zero Theorem
Philip Marlowe is back on the mean streets of LA: Private eye by icon of American Literature Raymond Chandler resurrected in new novel

Philip Marlowe is back on the mean streets of LA

Raymond Chandler's private eye resurrected in new novel
Never before seen personal accounts of Great War offer vivid picture of life at the Front

Vivid personal accounts of Great War

The footage has been unearthed from the BBC archives, says Gerard Gilbert
How to be a savvy TV addict: The essential guide to viewing what you want, when you want - without the sky-high prices

How to be a savvy TV addict

Say goodbye to the cable guy and ditch expensive satellite deals for a broadband connection and a streaming service
Ban the b-word

Is it time to ban the b-word?

A campaign is calling for an end to the use of the word bossy because it is undermining female ambition
Sarkoscandals: A guide to the former French President’s alleged crimes

Sarkoscandals: A guide to the former French President’s alleged crimes

Phone-tapping by judges has led to serious charges against Nicolas Sarkozy - and much shouting
10 best planters

Go green: 10 best planters

The sun’s finally out. Pep up your garden or balcony with these pots and containers
When Spurs fell just short of glory

When Spurs fell just short of glory

The game against Benfica recalls one of the great nights at the Lane when the Tottenham Double side came agonisingly close to the 1962 European Cup final
Simon Hart: MLS may be a retirement home to some, but for Derby's Simon Dawkins it revived his career

Simon Hart: Life beyond the Premier League

MLS may be a retirement home to some, but for Derby's Simon Dawkins it revived his career
Boy George: Bad karma

Bad karma

The enthusiastic rehabilitation of Boy George after he served time for a vicious attack says much about our disregard for male victims of violence
Is the secret to liberation from the cares of this world a two-word curse?

Is the secret to liberation from the cares of this world a two-word curse?

Followers of the best-selling author John C Parkin swear by his cussing philosophy. But would Nick Duerden be convinced?
25 years of the World Wide Web: The inventor of the Internet, Tim Berners-Lee, explains how it all began

25 years of the World Wide Web

The inventor of the Internet, Tim Berners-Lee, explains how it all began
W1A: Let's fix the BBC, yah

Let's fix the BBC, yah

Can the Corporation survive the Twenty Twelve treatment? James Rampton finds out on the set of W1A
Scots literati lead battle against £150m Caltongate building project in Edinburgh's historic Old Town

The battle for Edinburgh's historic Old Town

Irvine Welsh, William Boyd, William Dalrymple and AL Kennedy among those opposed to plans for building project