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New maps show high-risk zones for whale-ship collisions − vessel speed limits and rerouting can reduce the toll

Imagine you are a blue whale swimming up the California coast, as you do every spring. You are searching for krill in the Santa Barbara Channel, a zone that teems with fish, kelp forests, seagrass beds and other undersea life, but also vibrates with noise from ship traffic. Suddenly, the…

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Reduce whale-ship strikes by making 2.6% of ocean surface safer, study says

Researchers identify collision hotspots around world but reveal almost all these lack preventive measures

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Coral spawning program hailed a great success for reef

Scientists have used an Australian-made coral restoration technique called Coral IVF to boost the outcome of the Great Barrier Reef's annual coral spawning.

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A Bornean orangutan on a fearless quest for figs: Tim Laman’s best photograph

‘While it was dark, I climbed up and put remote control cameras in the tree. I’d never have got the shot if I’d been up there. An orangutan always knows you’re there’

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Increased Thames seal sightings could be 'new normal' says expert, as warning issued to Londoners

Dog owners have been asked to keep their pets on leashes

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Madagascar’s huge ocean algae bloom was caused by dust from drought-stricken southern Africa

Scientists have found new evidence that desertification, potentially linked to global warming, leads to large amounts of nutrient-rich dust landing in the sea, causing ocean algae to grow rapidly. Biological oceanographer John A. Gittings and an international group of researchers have found an example of this phenomenon in the Indian…

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Patches of wildflowers in cities can be just as good for insects as natural meadows – study

Researchers found no difference in the diversity of species in urban meadows compared with those in rural settings

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Australian reptile park wants public's help to 'milk' deadly spiders

150 funnel-web spiders are needed to help create lifesaving antivenom

Evening Standard

Crowd forms on Alaskan beach after giant whale carcass washes ashore

An endangered fin whale that washed up near a coastal trail in Alaska’s largest city has attracted curious onlookers while biologists seek answers as to what caused the animal’s death

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Lonely dolphin in Baltic Sea may be talking to itself

‘Self-talk’ may be byproduct of intrinsic need for social interaction, researchers say

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Parts of Great Barrier Reef record highest coral deaths due to heat, storms

Up to 72 percent of coral found dead on 12 of 19 surveyed reefs in the north of the world’s largest living structure.

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French NGO calls for international protection zone for whale sharks

A French environmental organisation is advocating for the creation of an international protection zone for the whale shark in the South Atlantic – between Cape Verde and Saint Helena. The project has recently gained the support of the sailing community through the Vendée Globe Foundation.

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Country diary: The redwings have arrived – but why are they so skittish?

Monsal Dale, Derbyshire: Of the five common thrushes that call Britain home, these are the most unpredictable and least approachable

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Parts Of Great Barrier Reef Suffer Highest Coral Mortality On Record

Parts of the Great Barrer Reef have suffered the highest coral mortality on record, Australian research showed Tuesday, with scientists fearing the rest of it has suffered a similar fate.

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Carbon credits scheme missing threatened species mark

Australia's carbon projects are doing little to conserve the nation's most threatened species whose habitat is mostly on privately owned agricultural land.

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'Critically Endangered' African Penguins Just Want Peace And Food

Mashudu Mashau says it takes about two minutes to catch a penguin, a task he does weekly to investigate sightings of injured or sickly seabirds.

The Guardian - UK

Country diary: The night-time farm is alive with unseen wildlife

Caister St Edmund, Norfolk: Dozens of deer and hares are out in the fields, grazing in relative safety, and Dad is especially excited to see mating slugs

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As Australia privatises nature repair, the cheapest approach won’t save our threatened species

Australia is a world-leader in species extinction and environmental decline. So great is the problem, the federal government now wants to harness money from the private sector to pay for nature repair.

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Curlew species thought to be extinct by conservationists in first for Europe

The slender-billed curlew could be the first known global bird extinction from mainland Europe, north Africa and west Asia.

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Bird species thought to be extinct in first recorded case

Scientists find last irrefutable sighting of the slender-billed curlew was in February 1995 in Morocco

The Guardian - UK

Country diary: Turnstones and beet among the trolleys and bikes

Otterspool, Merseyside: This is land built on waste-tips and spoil, but wildlife is thriving. Perhaps one day the otters will return, too

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Rescue mission begins after mysterious crayfish deaths in Northumberland

At least 100 white-clawed crayfish, the UK’s only native species, have been found dead since the end of September

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Scientists make splash as native fish risk going under

Scientists are demanding action over findings a third of native freshwater fish species populations are under threat.

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‘Learn how to safely catch funnel-webs’: Sydneysiders tasked with hunt for venom as spiders’ breeding season begins

Baby spiders collected from egg sacs via Australian Reptile Park’s yearly callout are vital to creating lifesaving antivenom

International Business Times

Nature Pays Price For War In Israel's North

Across northern Israel's lush, green nature reserves, the ecological toll of the war between Israel and Hezbollah militants is laid bare: wild boar hit by shrapnel, trees reduced to ashes and swathes of charred vegetation.

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