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The Book of Birds by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris audiobook review – a love letter to our feathered friends

This compendium profiles 49 of Britain’s threatened species, with each entry featuring a prose poem evoking the unique qualities of each bird and their meticulously recorded call

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Country diary: Mayday, mayday … the heatwave is killing the swallow chicks

Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk: Adult swallows travel across the world to breed in Britain’s supposedly temperate climate. Instead, this week’s temperatures have been deadly

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‘Utterly appalling’: anger over swimmers in Hampstead Heath wildlife ponds

Nature groups urge people to avoid unauthorised areas to protect birds during nesting season

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Rare underground animals relocated from city centre ahead of major project

Rare water voles which burrow underground in Glasgow have been relocated ahead of the start of a major project ...

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Lord Howe Island got rid of its rats and mice – now its ‘wonderful’ insect life is back

Invasive vermin decimated the island’s native flora and fauna – but its unique cockroaches and beetles are thriving once again

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Blossoming among spoil heaps: how 1,000 years of lead mining gave birth to banks of pansies and pennycress

Calaminarian grassland is a rare habitat where plants thrive in soils contaminated by heavy metals. But should these toxic meadows be protected or allowed to fade away?

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Country diary: Perilous puffins and a plucky underdog

Swanage, Dorset: While the seabirds here make the headlines, my eye is drawn to the unassuming rock pipit and its accelerating song

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Even moderately hot days raise risk of koala deaths: study

PARIS (FRANCE) - Koalas can endure tough conditions in the Australian bush but prolonged exposure to even moderately hot weather can increase their risk of heat-related death, researchers said on Wednesday.

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The dead lake: This Tanzanian lake can turn dead animals into stone-like statues

At first glance, the animals look frozen in time. A bird appears trapped mid-flight. A bat hangs stiffly from a branch with its wings spread wide like a gothic sculpture. Their bodies seem carved from stone rather than flesh, as though some invisible force transformed living creatures into lifeless statues.…

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‘Let these amazing forests come back to life’; push to expand England’s rainforest

Campaign comes as Duchy of Cornwall announces plan to expand small pockets of ancient woodland at two sites

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Country diary: A jaw-dropping bounty of wildlife – and a reminder of what Britain has lost

Biebrza marshes, Poland: Biebrza marshes, Poland: It’s not just the abundance of elks, orchids and eagles that sets the mind racing, it’s the wild interactions between the ‘exotic’ and the familiar

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Nearly two dozen gray whales have already died of strandings this year on Northwest beaches

The whales are suffering from malnutrition, which researchers believe has been a consequence of climate change

The Independent UK

10 pink lakes around the world: From Lake Hillier to Pink Lake

Across several continents, some lakes appear almost unreal at first glance. Some turn pale rose during dry months, others deepen into bubblegum pink under harsh sunlight, and a few shift colour throughout the year depending on salt concentration and microscopic algae activity. The effect is not caused by pollution or…

The Times of India

'He's tiny! It's blue!': Scientists find new deep-sea octopus

PARIS (FRANCE) - On the ocean floor near the Galapagos Islands, a submersible controlled by scientists came across a mysterious octopus as blue as the ocean and no bigger than a golf ball.

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'It's blue!': Scientists discover new deep-sea octopus near Galapagos Islands

Scientists have discovered a new species of octopus nearly 1,800 metres below the water's surface near the Galapagos Islands. The team from the Charles Darwin Foundation named the “tiny” cerulean cephalopod Microeledone galapagensis because of its blue hue, which is believed to be the rarest colour in nature.

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Are you guilty of these 5 gardening habits that starve bees? A horticulture expert shares what you should be doing instead

These seemingly 'helpful' gardening tasks could be seriously harming the pollinators that visit your garden

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Endangered sawfish at risk from plan to double water extraction from WA’s Fitzroy River, advocates say

The Martuwarra Fitzroy catchment is home to four of the world’s five sawfish species, which rely on large groundwater-fed pools to survive the dry season

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Country diary: Violence, precision and a free lunch – welcome to the weird world of pollination

Willington, County Durham: On a fine May morning, there’s no better time to look at the stunning array of ways that bees and flowers have co-evolved to interact

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Risk of snakebites increasing as reptiles adapt to changing world, says study

Research led by WHO predicts hotter climate will lead to more contact between humans and venomous snakes

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Scientists surveying ants accidentally stumble upon new ‘happy face’ spider species

High-altitude species named after the mighty Himalayas

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Coral protest takes aim at needless reef harvesting

Chipping off healthy Great Barrier Reef corals to sell to private aquariums no longer passes the pub test, according to a green group opposed to the practice.

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Mike Salisbury obituary

Wildlife television producer who worked on the BBC’s ‘Life’ series with David Attenborough and edited The Natural World

The Times of India

World Bee Day campaign encourages public to protect declining UK pollinators

The RSPCA urges public support for declining bee populations, with a third lost in three decades, impacting vital crops. Initiatives like the South Downs' Bee Lines project create wildflower habitats. Experts highlight bees' intelligence and complex lives, emphasizing simple actions like providing water and planting native flowers can significantly aid…

Bangkok Post

Humpback whales make record swims between Australia and Brazil

SYDNEY - Two humpback whales have set new records for the longest-known distances travelled for their species by embarking on a journey of over 14,000 kilometres between Brazil and Australia, scientists said on Wednesday.

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Collecting pollen can be as exhausting for bees as flight take-off, study shows

‘Floral buzzing’, the vibrations bees use to shake pollen loose from flowers, takes more energy than previously thought

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