Boats to rock pools: Marine makeover for yacht club seawall
Ten artificial rock pools have been installed along Strangford Yacht Club’s seawall as a refuge for marine life.
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‘I needed to be in that strange, flat place’: how an Orkney garden healed a writer
After her sister died, Victoria Bennett left Cumbria for the remote Scottish archipelago, where she learned to go with the ebb and flow of life It was during her first winter in Orkney that the nature writer Victoria Bennett experienced…
After nearly a century, Taiwan’s legless lizard gets its own identity
A new study has cleared up a century’s worth of identity confusion surrounding a secretive, legless lizard found in Taiwan’s forests. Researchers from National Taiwan Normal University confirmed the Formosan legless lizard (Dopasia formosensis) is a distinct species endemic to…
Snow Is Scarce in the Upper Colorado Basin
Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Snow Is Scarce in the Upper… Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow…
Endangered civet faces local extinction in Cambodian sanctuary
The large-spotted civet is an endangered small carnivore found in pockets of forest across Southeast Asia. Now, a new study suggests the nocturnal mammals are heading toward local extinction in Cambodia’s Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary (SWS), once considered a global stronghold…
Peter Raven, botanist and advocate for biodiversity, has died, aged 89
Life on Earth is often described as a web, but for much of modern science it was catalogued as a ledger: names, specimens, distributions, relationships drawn in careful lines. Over the course of the 20th century, that ledger gave way…
UK’s biggest ever environmental pollution claim reaches High Court
One of the UK’s largest chicken producers and a water company accused of polluting three rivers including the River Wye
Renewable energy will boost national security and protect UK from sabotage, minister says
Widely dispersed wind farms and solar panels are harder to target than fossil fuel power stations, Michael Shanks says Renewable energy will boost the UK’s national security and make the country more resilient against potential aggression or sabotage, the government’s…
Texas tornado kills at least one person as wildfires still rage in parts of Georgia
Extreme weather likely to continue after devastating homes and endangering millions in US south and midwest At least one person was killed after a very powerful tornado struck northern Texas on Saturday night, as extreme weather continued to devastate homes…
Don Janssen, wildlife veterinarian who argued that caring for animals begins with people
In a zoo, a crisis often begins before anyone names it as such. An animal stops responding to treatment. A pregnancy fails to progress. A procedure goes as planned but the animal does not recover as expected. The work is…