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Underwater Gardeners Plant Eelgrass To Save 'Dead' Danish Fjord

Under a white tent on the shores of a polluted Danish fjord, volunteers and researchers prepare slender green shoots of eelgrass to be planted on the seabed to help restore the site's damaged ecosystem.

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I surveyed 17 million insects flying through a Pyrenean mountain pass – here’s what I learned about these ‘remarkable migrants’

In 1950, ornithologists Elizabeth and David Lack were watching birds migrate through a Pyrenean mountain pass on the border between France and Spain when they stumbled across something extraordinary – uncountable numbers of migrating insects. The Lacks were the first people to record fly migration in Europe. Despite only being…

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‘Magical’: 17m insects fly each year through narrow pass in Pyrenees, say scientists

Exeter University study has origins in 1950 discovery by ornithologists who ‘chanced upon a spectacle’

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Mexico expedition sights only 6 to 8 vaquita porpoises, the most endangered marine mammal

Only 6 to 8 of Mexico’s critically endangered vaquita marina porpoises were sighted this year in the Gulf California

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Iceland grants country’s last whaling company licence to hunt 128 fin whales

Conservationists criticise ‘disappointing’ and ‘dangerous’ move to allow harpooning of fin whales after curbs last year

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Losing winter ice is changing the Great Lakes food web – here’s how light is shaping life underwater

Winters on the Great Lakes are harsh – so much so that the scientists who work there often focus on the summer months, when tiny microbes at the base of the food chain were thought to be most productive.

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Coral reef recovery could get a boost from an unlikely source: Sea cucumbers, the janitors of the seafloor

Sea cucumbers, scavengers of the seafloor that resemble the cylindrical vegetable, have been consumed as a delicacy in Asia for centuries. But in recent decades, they’ve been severely overharvested to a point that they are now quite rare. New research I helped conduct suggests their repopulation could play an important…

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Weird insects you may find in your garden

Giant beetles, funky-looking caterpillars and huge hoverflies may all be lurking.

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We have a moral responsibility to help low-income nations restore coral reefs

The fourth global coral bleaching event is underway. It won’t be the last.

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Male dolphins ‘use social play to hone mating skills years before they mature’

Male bottlenose dolphins are known to form lifelong bonds that help them find mates.

The Independent UK

Elephants call each other by unique names, new study shows

New research shows African elephants call each other and respond to individual names, something few wild animals do

The Independent UK

Country diary: A roadside rarity that’s so easy to miss

Hexhamshire, Northumberland: It takes a decade for the bird’s nest orchid to summon the energy to bloom. And it would have no chance if this verge had been cut

The Guardian - UK

Only 10% of native plants can be bought as seed – a big problem for nature repair. Here’s how we can make plantings more diverse

More than 52 million hectares of land across Australia is degraded. Degraded land lacks biodiversity and the natural balance of healthy ecosystems, making it unfit for wildlife or cultivation. This means we are losing the benefits that healthy ecosystems provide for nature and people.

The Conversation

Flying ants vs termites: key differences and how to deter them from your home

Flying ants and termites look really similar, but there's ways to tell the difference and deter them from your home.

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Country diary: A disturbance here, a ripple there, and then we spot one

Badenoch, Cairngorms: In the soundless and secretive flow of the stream, we hear a splash that’s too hefty for a duck

The Guardian - AU

Hungry foxes are having a ‘catastrophic’ impact on Australia’s juvenile freshwater turtles. There’s a push to change that

Turtle’s long lives may be masking extent of loss of young and eggs, experts say, with estimates that one species has declined in population by 90% or more

The Independent UK

A huge rare sea creature has washed up on a public beach. It could be there for weeks

The creature may remain there for weeks as it is difficult for scavengers to puncture its tough skin

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Large tiger shark washes ashore on Nantucket, but only briefly

The massive tiger shark washed up dead this week, but beachgoers were unsuccessful in keeping it on the beach.

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We’ve measured the cost of unsustainable industrial fishing on coastal communities – and it’s vast

Shark finning – the practice of removing the fins from a captured shark and discarding the rest, often still alive, back into the ocean – is banned in many countries due to its inhumane and unsustainable nature. However, these fins are highly valued for their use in shark fin soup,…

The Guardian - UK

Forget marigolds and busy lizzies: how to give your window box a twist

Create the perfect ‘little garden’ by planting something a bit different on your ledge

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Fears land clearing will lead to tree mammal extinction

A loss of trees and natural hollows is leading to a decline in the mammals that inhabit the spaces in northern Australia, sparking extinction fears.

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How giant earthworms have transformed the Isle of Rum’s landscape

Renowned for a thriving and intricately studied population of around 900 red deer, the Isle of Rum, part of Scotland’s Inner Hebrides, is often considered an outdoor laboratory for scientific research. But the earthworms on Rum are equally remarkable. These invertebrates act as “ecosystem engineers”, actively shaping the landscape, often…

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‘We want to listen’: Exhibition on lynx reintroduction to tour southern Scotland

AN exhibition on reintroducing lynx to the UK is set to tour southern Scotland in a bid to drum up support for the project.

Evening Standard

Fish becoming 'addicted' to methamphetamine due to waters polluted with human drugs

New study warns human medication in UK waters is harming animals

The Guardian - UK

More intense, frequent tropical cyclones may devastate seabird colonies – study

Up to 90% ‘lost in the blink of an eye’, say scientists studying Cyclone Ilsa’s effect on birds on Western Australian island

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