Bring back the big cats: is it time to start rewilding Britain?
Rewilding means the mass restoration of damaged ecosystems. It involves letting trees return and allowing parts of the seabed to…
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The silence of the larks: Britain’s mysterious disappearing birds
Britain’s avian population is the most watched in the world – but new studies show nature in retreat.
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People don’t want to hear it when you tell them to run over amphibians
Ah – the internet. One minute in which to arm myself with an encyclopaedic knowledge about frogs.
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The government is capturing wild beavers for the first time in centuries
Beavers are the new badgers as the government’s decision to trap England’s wild beavers causes outrage among wildlife lovers.
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Our plastic waste is changing the geology of the Earth’s rocks
The tiny pieces of plastic that we throw away every year are forming a new layer of sedentary rock across…
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The placenta is a marvel that scientists can’t match
Nothing we can engineer has come close to replicating the placenta’s ability to act as the kidney, lungs, hormone source,…
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Humans not entirely at fault for passenger pigeon extinction
New research suggests that the human impact coincided with a natural decrease in population size.
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No one will die of a snakebite in Britain this summer. Why?
The most recent snakebite death in the UK was in 1975. If only that were true elsewhere: snakebites kill up to…
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