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The charity representing library services in England, Wales and Northern Ireland has launched a support programme for at-risk services in the wake of proposed budget cuts across the country, including in Denbighshire, Nottingham and Swindon.On Wednesday, Libraries Connected announced that more than 20 library services, representing around 650 public, prison and mobile libraries, have joined the charity’s scheme, which offers a confidential peer support network, resource library, tailored training and communications…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain In the high-stakes fight against climate change, the United States—and the planet—are at a moment that is both hopeful and harrowing. U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases have fallen, even as the country's population and economy grow. Since 2018, cities in every region have ramped up their efforts to reduce…

Two environmental groups and a First Nation in British Columbia say the federal government is recommending an order to protect the critically at-risk northern spotted owl.Just three of the tiny owls are known to be in the wild in B.C., with a fourth recovering at a rehabilitation centre after it was suspected to have been hit by a train.A statement from the Wilderness Committee, Ecojustice and Spuzzum Nation says they have learned federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault is recommending an…

Wildfire at Lick Creek, Umatilla National Forest, Oregon, United States. Credit: Brendan O'Reilly/U.S. Forest Service Forests are engaged in a delicate, deadly dance with climate change, sucking carbon dioxide out of the air with billions of leafy straws and hosting abundant biodiversity, as long as climate change, with its droughts, wildfires and ecosystem shifts, doesn't kill them first.…