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Super Typhoon Yagi: rescuers on standby as Southern China braces for extreme winds

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Super Typhoon Yagi: rescuers on standby as Southern China braces for extreme winds

School classes have been suspended, parks closed, train and boat services put on hold and residents told to stay inside as Southern China braces for Super Typhoon Yagi. Yagi’s maximum sustained winds near the centre reached 68 metres per second, China’s official weather forecaster said on Friday morning. The typhoon is forecast to land somewhere … Read more

How Hong Kong’s Mai Po wetlands are under threat again, and past battles the ‘bird paradise’ has faced

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How Hong Kong’s Mai Po wetlands are under threat again, and past battles the ‘bird paradise’ has faced

The flocks are smaller, maybe tens of birds at best, but you could enjoy up-close, eyeball-to-eyeball encounters with species such as grey heron, little egrets, common teal – the drakes of these dainty ducks have splashes of green on their ruddy-brown heads – and black-winged stilts, named for their remarkably long legs. Avocets in the … Read more