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Coast clear as response to toxic algal bloom eased

Improved water quality has triggered the scaling back of a state's multi-million-dollar response to a toxic algal bloom but fishing closures remain in place.

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Cocaine residues in waterways linked to disrupted salmon behaviour, study shows

Salmon exposed to cocaine in the water swim longer distances, an Australian and Swedish study published this week shows. Recreational drugs and medicines entering natural environments via wastewater are a growing threat to biodiversity, disrupting the behaviour of many animals.

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Australia is the world’s fourth-largest black truffle producer. Now scientists may have unearthed why

Understanding truffles is a ‘tricky proposition’ because most of the magic occurs underground

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Eighteen wolves found dead in Italian national park in suspected poisoning

Criminal investigation under way after carcasses found across Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise national park within a week

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Dippy the injured axolotl rescued from Welsh river

Family found creature under a bridge and are documenting its recovery in a fish tank on TikTok

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'Elvis of birds': clue found in hunt for elusive parrot

Researchers are racing against time to find and protect a critically endangered parrot after a decade-long search led to audio of the rare bird's call.

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“A moving tribute to the emperor penguin and the fragile ecosystems it depends on”: Martin marks Earth Day with a custom graphic 00L Biosphere IV acoustic in the name of penguin preservation

This stunning slope-shouldered 00-14 features artwork from Robert Goetzl, an FSC-certified build, and recognises a universal truth that the world is infinitely better with penguins in it

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Window to tackle Europe’s global heating deaths closing, experts warn

Heat killed 62,000 people across Europe in 2024, and deaths related to extreme temperatures rose in nearly every part of the continent over the past decade, a new report has found.

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Giant invasive toads in Japan are rapidly getting bigger and scientists don’t know why

Researchers say findings challenge idea that evolutionary change happens at a glacially slow pace

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Massive swarm of new box jellyfish species spotted off western Australia coast

Nearly 100 of these soft, white, and translucent creatures emerged from the waters 1,530km north of Perth

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Onlookers urged to give walrus spotted in harbour space to rest

The animal is thought to be the same one spotted recently seen in Orkney, and it is believed to have now swum to mainland Scotland.

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Gibraltar’s monkeys eat mud ‘to avoid upset stomachs from tourist junk food’

Macaques have learned to eat soil to avert gut irritation caused by salty and sugary snacks, researchers believe

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Cow-killing screwworm is ‘dangerously close’ to the Texas border as officials told to act now

The New World Screwworm lays its eggs in the bodies of warm-blooded animals and its larvae eats their living flesh, increasing the risk of infection and death

The Independent UK

England wildlife watchdog ‘has stopped designating special sites for protection’

Exclusive: Report finds Natural England has created no new SSSIs, which protect areas from development, since 2023

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Over 1,000 toads feared dead after Welsh reservoir drained: What causes mass amphibian deaths?

In a devastating turn of events, over a thousand toads have been lost following the draining of a vital breeding pond in North Wales during their critical mating season. Environmental advocates are expressing outrage as this habitat destruction poses a grave threat not only to amphibians but also disrupts the…

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WaterNSW criticised for ‘appalling’ decision after hundreds of turtles left to die in wetlands

River ecologist says ‘classic bureaucratic tangle’ led to government agency stopping flows to Gwydir wetlands region in March

The Independent UK

What’s happening to Timmy the whale? The lost humpback that’s likely to die in the Baltic Sea

A humpback whale’s likely final days in the Baltic Sea have been livestreamed across the globe

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Fears more than 1,000 toads may have died after Welsh water firm drains reservoir

Conservationists in Denbighshire ‘angry and heartbroken’ after Nant-y-Ffrith site emptied during breeding season

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Fatal fungi: health alert as mushroom season begins

Death caps and yellow-staining mushrooms are among the toxic fungi health authorities are warning residents to avoid as growing season gets under way.

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‘How much have we missed?’: book tunes in to overlooked world of female birdsong

Authors set out to correct under-representation of female sounds – and found some surprising revelations

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Stranded and dying, the German whale is a parable of our troubled relationship with these sea giants

Even as we empathise with these intelligent animals, our relentless push for resources kills them in their thousands, just as whalers once hunted them to the brink of extinction

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Country diary: Return of the Manx shearwaters – this island is their home

Langness, Isle of Man: With their epic migrations, they are special birds, but especially so here, the place that coined the name

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‘Incomprehensible’: birds flee and hundreds of turtles left to die after government cuts water to NSW wetlands

Frogs and sheep in the Gwydir wetlands near Moree have also been bogged after WaterNSW stopped environmental flows, researchers say

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Millionaires fund last-ditch attempt to save humpback whale stranded in Germany

Critics say efforts to save the animal, nicknamed Tommy, unlikely to succeed and could lead to further harm

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More than 5 million bees found living under a New York cemetery - one of the largest recorded colonies ever

The discovery began by chance in 2022 when a Cornell University technician noticed large numbers of bees in the cemetery and brought samples to the lab

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