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ALEX BRUMMER: UK fires up the big guns to fight coronavirus chaos

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Under normal circumstances, it might have been an opportunity for a bit of boasting about the ‘Boris Bounce’.  The public finances in February were robust with a small surplus of £0.4billion based upon a sharp uptick in taxes by 3 per cent in response to a recovering economy.  Instead, the economy now finds itself on … Read more

Smoke from Amazon rainforest fires may increase melting of glaciers in the Andes 1000 miles away

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 By Ryan Morrison The level of deforestation of the Amazon rainforest is at its worst in more than a decade, according to a new report by Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research.  Between August 2018 and July 2019 there was more than 3,700 square miles of deforestation of the Brazilian part of the rainforest, up … Read more