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Climate change heats devil fish that possess St. Johns River

ORLANDO, Fla. — In another alarm of nature spiraling to hell in Florida, scientists suspect global warming has enabled devil fish to plague and ravage the St. Johns River.

Orlando Sentinel

Rural robins ‘become more physically aggressive when exposed to traffic noise’

The red-breasted birds change their behaviour when threatened

Evening Standard

Businesses want COP15 nature summit to deliver clarity

As government officials begin negotiating Wednesday toward a hoped-for deal to protect the wildlife and resources that prop up the global economy, investors are looking for one thing above all - clarity.

Reuters

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Specieswatch: depressed mussel disappears from stretch of Thames

Poor river management and invasive species have driven the bivalve out of a former stronghold

The Guardian - UK

Discovered in the deep: the extraordinary sawshark with a weapon-like snout

With the help of fishers in Madagascar and Tanzania, scientists named two new species of rare sixgill sawsharks

The Guardian - UK

Rural robins ‘get more physically aggressive when exposed to traffic noise’

The birds change their behaviour when threatened.

The Independent UK

Sharks spotted 'walking' on sea floor as underwater cameras reveal fascinating behaviour

A study carried out by the University of Exeter and NGO Beneath the Waves reveals an impressive range of skills nurse sharks use when eating, including 'pectoral positioning'

Daily Mirror

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COP15: three visions for protecting nature on the table at the UN biodiversity conference

With the dust still settling on the UN climate change summit in Egypt, another round of international talks is beginning in Montreal, Canada. The UN biodiversity conference, otherwise known as COP15, will assemble world leaders to agree on new targets for protecting nature.

The Conversation

Scientists create Biodiversity Council in desperate bid to help save Australia’s threatened animals and plants

Modelled on the Climate Council, the body says it will be a ‘strong and trusted voice’ backed by science including First People’s knowledge

The Guardian - AU

RSPB NI call for legally binding nature targets following biodiversity opinion poll

"They [DAERA] don’t have a Biodiversity Strategy which was supposed to be delivered in 2020 and the last one failed on the majority of its targets"

Belfast Live

U.N. chief urges strong global nature deal to end 'orgy of destruction'

As countries prepare to negotiate a new global agreement to protect Earth's environment, the head of the United Nations warned there was no time to lose.

Reuters

Damning report on Scotland's protected nature areas reveals overall decline

Around 18% of land is legally protected for nature but in many areas the measures are not working, a hard-hitting environmental report found.

Daily Record

Sea urchins have invaded Tasmania and Victoria, but we can’t work out what to do with them

While crown-of-thorns starfish on the Great Barrier Reef have long been ecological villains in the popular imagination, sea urchins have mostly crawled under the national radar – until now.

The Conversation

Weasels, not pandas, should be the poster animal for biodiversity loss

At the United Nations biodiversity conference that opens in Montreal on Dec. 7, 2022, nations aim to create a new global framework for transforming humanity’s relationship with nature. The conference logo features a human reaching to embrace a panda – but from an ecological perspective, a weasel or badger would…

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Mass extinctions are happening. Can they be stopped?

Scientists, conservationists and government representatives will gather this week in Montreal to decide on a plan to stop a stunning loss of plant and animal life around the globe. The United Nations' COP15 — a conference on biological diversity — offers a rare chance for countries to set mutual commitments…

Evening Standard

2,500 seals found dead along Russian coastline

The animals had likely died of natural causes a couple of weeks ago, officials said

AAP

Long lost Tassie tiger found at museum

Researchers have realised the long-lost remains of the last-known thylacine have in fact been in the collection of a Tasmanian museum.

ABC News

Heron Island research shows green sea turtle gender ratios in southern Great Barrier Reef

An island where 80 per cent of turtle hatchlings are born female is more of a level playing field when it comes to breeding than researchers initially feared.

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The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on biodiversity collapse: the crisis humanity can no longer ignore

Editorial: A million animal and plant species are perilously close to extinction. Their fate and ours are intimately connected

Newcastle Herald

Barrington-Hawkesbury corridor the last line of defence against climate change

An alliance of local and national environment groups have called for a moratorium on land clearing across 810,000 hectares between Barrington Tops and Hawkesbury River.

ABC News

Abrolhos painted button-quail species threatened by predators, rainfall decline

Painted button-quails have not been spotted on one island at the Abrolhos since 2006, while very few birds are left elsewhere.

The Guardian - UK

Spoonbills rebound as UK farmers bolster tree cover and wetlands

Once common in England and Wales, the species was hunted to local extinction about 300 years ago

The Guardian - UK

Country diary: The all-conquering sea eagle suddenly seems vulnerable

Abernethy Forest, Cairngorms: Avian flu has reached our biggest bird of prey. How extra special it is to experience their startling grandeur up close

Daily Mirror

Humpback whales captured off UK coast in incredible footage of 'rare' sightings

Wildlife experts are hoping for a 'flurry of whale sightings' in the UK over the next few months after humpback whales were spotted along the coast of Cornwall twice this week

Evening Standard

How do you treat a spider bite and what are the symptoms to look out for?

With temperatures rising, it’s important to know which spiders can cause problems

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