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Pilot whale stranded off Pembrokeshire coast shows impact of climate change, say scientists

Researchers said its discovery adds to the growing evidence of a clear trend of marine life being affected by changing water temperatures

Wales Online · Jan 27, 2023

Birdsong boosts mental wellbeing for 90% of people, UK poll finds

RSPB shares results as Britons encouraged to spend an hour counting birds in annual Big Garden Birdwatch

The Guardian - UK · Jan 27, 2023

Is 'Toadzilla' a sign of enormous cane toads to come? It's possible – toads grow as large as their environment allows

Last week, the world met “Toadzilla”, a cane toad the size of a football and six times larger than average. The rangers who found her – female toads are bigger than male – were stunned. Weighing in at 2.7 kilograms, Toadzilla may be the largest cane toad ever recorded.

The Conversation · Jan 26, 2023

Britain’s biodiversity crisis

A new study offers insight into how to better protect biodiversity

Salon · Jan 26, 2023

Surge in number of dolphin deaths sparks call for halt to Atlantic fishing

Biologists and animal rights activists have called for a temporary halt to fishing off the French Atlantic coast as hundreds of fatally injured dolphins wash up on the nation's beaches.

Radio France Internationale · Jan 26, 2023

Finding Britain's 'shadow woods' offers the fastest way to reforest the countryside

When William the Conqueror surveyed his new kingdom in 1086, from lowland to upland, Britain was covered with trees. In low-lying Yorkshire, the East Anglian Fens and the Somerset Levels, wet woods of tall white willows and alders lined great rivers. On windswept highlands in the Pennines, north Yorkshire and…

The Conversation · Jan 25, 2023

Deep sea reefs are spectacular and barely-explored – they must be conserved

Sunlit coral reefs are perhaps the most famous marine habitat and many people will have snorkelled over or dived down to one at some point. Home to a quarter of all known ocean life, these “rainforests of the ocean” have been at the forefront of marine research for decades and…

The Conversation · Jan 25, 2023

Agency delays protections for imperiled bat, prairie chicken

The Biden administration is temporarily delaying legal protections for two imperiled species after getting pushback from congressional Republicans

The Independent UK · Jan 25, 2023

US reinstates road, logging restrictions on Alaska forest

The federal government is reinstating restrictions on road-building and logging on the country’s largest national forest in southeast Alaska

The Independent UK · Jan 25, 2023

Environmentalists to file lawsuit over Illinois' Bell Bowl Prairie, home to the endangered rusty patched bumblebee

CHICAGO — The fight to preserve Bell Bowl Prairie in Rockford, Illinois, where federally endangered rusty patched bumblebees have been found, ramped up this week, with environmentalists saying they intend to return to federal court.

Chicago Tribune · Jan 25, 2023