7 hours ago | Grist

The United Nations has called on the world to protect 30 percent of the planet from human activity to help protect ecosystems and slow down climate change. But conservation...
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Farmers hatch plan to return area the size of Dorset to wild nature

11 hours ago | The Guardian

WildEast aims to convince farmers, councils and others across East Anglia to pledge land to wildlife Returning an area the size of Dorset to wild nature, reintroducing extinct...
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10 of the UK's best nature reserves on reclaimed land

11 hours ago | The Guardian

A former coal mine, railway and salt works are among the sites reclaimed by nature and now flourishing with wildlife This is a wetland nature reserve on the site of a former...
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Inquiry opened over EU failure to consider environmental and social impacts of South American trade deal

4 days ago | Client Earth

The European Ombudsman has opened an inquiry into the EU Commission's trade agreement with the ‘Mercosur' group of South American countries. This follows a complaint from...
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Rewild Yourself by Simon Barnes review - how to get closer to nature

5 days ago | The Guardian

Listen to the dawn chorus, find a giant moth... suggestions to enrich your life In CS Lewis's Voyage of the Dawn Treader , Lucy reads out a spell for revealing hidden things...
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Gall fly outmaneuvers host plant in game of “Spy vs. Spy”

5 days ago | British Ecological Society

According to John Tooker, professor of entomology, this complex scenario begins when a female gall fly lays its eggs in the leaf bud of a goldenrod plant. This action forces...
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EU - China Dialogue on Green Deal and Green Economic Recovery

5 days ago | Client Earth

On the 29th of June ClientEarth co-hosted a virtual workshop on green economic recovery on behalf of the bilateral EU - China Environment Project. The workshop focused on the...
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Learning about penguin's diet may save marine life, study finds

5 days ago | British Ecological Society

The waters of south-eastern Australia are a climate change hotspot, warming at four times the global average. Understanding how to future proof the prey of little penguins in...
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Trees can't move fast enough to escape a warming climate. Should we help them?

6 days ago | The Guardian

Concerned about trees' slow migration patterns, some ecologists are spreading seeds themselves. Critics fear they are playing God There is an impressive array of pine species...
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'Landscape of fear': what a mass of rotting reindeer carcasses taught scientists

6 days ago | The Guardian

When 323 reindeer were killed by lightning on a remote Norwegian plateau, their bodies were left for nature to take its course In August 2016, a park ranger stumbled upon 323...
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Max's broken endplate got stuck in bargeboard

Max Verstappen's dip in car performance at the Styrian Grand Prix can be explained by a broken endplate getting stuck in the bargeboard area. Verstappen managed to split the... Read more ...

“Frequent Fliers'': Study finds long-distance dispersal trend in American...

The authors found that dispersal movements by kestrels are often of greater distances than can typically be detected within nest box study areas, and identified factors that... Read more ...

Death Stranding endings explained

Death Stranding's story is anything but simple, but the Death Stranding endings are satisfyingly succinct. Before we move on, it's really important we flag the rather obvious... Read more ...

Google's former CEO reportedly hosts a secretive summit in Yellowstone whose...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has run an ultra-secretive summit in Montana for a handful of executives, politicians, and celebrities since at least 2012, Tech Transparency... Read more ...

Line Of Duty series 6 set to return to filming in August

Line Of Duty series 6 will resume filming in August Line Of Duty is set to resume production in late August after being forced to shutdown amid the coronavirus pandemic back... Read more ...

Lessons from a hotter planet: Things escalate quickly

The story of our warming planet can be told by degrees. The global thermostat has gone up 1 degree Celsius since the Industrial Revolution, and rivers of meltwater are now... Read more ...

These proud LGBTQ adventurers are putting the ‘out' in outdoors

“The mountains are calling,” says a post by Pattie Gonia, an Instagram personality and - according to her bio - the world's first backpacking drag queen. “They want their... Read more ...

Nature experts unveil plan for network of wildflower 'highways'

A newly completed 'B-lines' network of England, mapping out corridors of existing and potential wildflower habitat across the landscape, has been launched by conservation... Read more ...

Expert reaction to a case study which finds evidence for the potential...

A case study, published in Nature Communications , looked at evidence for the potential transmission of SARS-CoV-2 via the placenta from a mother to her baby. Prof Christoph... Read more ...

Rhino horn consumers in Vietnam do not trust demand reduction campaigns

The world rhino population has steadily declined over the past decade as consumer demand continues to drive a poaching crisis. Although considerable effort has been invested in... Read more ...

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These scientists are using machine learning to listen to nature