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Seaweed isn’t something that generally features today in European recipe books, even though it is widely eaten in Asia.

Nature photographers using social media to post their work are helping enhance biodiversity conservation mapping in South Asia and the concept has the potential to spread globally. Read further on Dynamite News:

Australia is preparing for a bird flu onslaught that could do untold harm to native species, as scientists wait to see what will happen in Antarctica.

Mangroves and sandbanks threaten Kadalundi's mudflats, a key foraging ground for migrant shorebirds. Mudflats have reduced from 8 hectares to 1, depriving birds of prey. Ecotourism is being promoted, but mangroves are aggressively proliferating, reducing prey and carbon sequestration. Shorebirds are now seeking alternative foraging grounds. Protection and restoration of…

Far off the Texas coast there is a beautiful surprise in the Gulf of Mexico that draws divers from around the world: a stunning amount of coral coverage on undersea mountains

Five multiple-choice questions – set by children – to test your knowledge, and a chance to submit your own junior brainteasers for future quizzes

Scientists used AI to find the first non-human animals to name each other

As the number of whale carcasses washing up on the UK coast grows each year, officials often face a large dilemma

The Neretva, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, is one of the most biodiverse rivers on the continent – supporting bears, wolves, lynx and many rare species – but more than 50 planned dams could permanently transform the ecosystem

Festive season of zoological finds in India's northeast: 11 emperor moths, new frog, 2 snails, 19 scarab beetles, & bent-toed gecko recorded. Moths named after moons on wings, frog after streams, snails after Himalayas & gecko after Vairengte area.

Australia’s abysmal rates of extinctions and land clearing since European colonisation are infamous globally. Our national environmental legislation has largely failed to protect biodiversity, including many threatened plants, animals and ecological communities. But change is afoot.