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The Whanganui River is officially a living being and legal person. Māori leaders explain how Indigenous knowledge and persistence made it happen. By Katie Surma Ned Tapa has spent his life along New Zealand’s Whanganui River. For Tapa, a Māori…
A routine medical checkup for a Trenton toddler uncovered dangerous lead levels. A mother struggled to navigate home inspections and health risks—and then made a hard choice. By Anna Mattson TRENTON, N.J.—Amber DeLoney-Stewart brought her 2-year-old, Valencia, to the doctor’s…
A decade after tour guide Basil P. Das stumbled upon a small black-and-beige snake while working on his coffee farm in southern India, researchers have described it as a new-to-science species. They’ve named it Rhinophis siruvaniensis, the species name referring…
Foreign Office and MoD among only four departments with declining morale in annual Whitehall monitor report Civil service morale rose slightly after Labour took power in 2024, with the biggest jumps in satisfaction in the energy and health departments, an…
Volunteers found thousands of dead bats at Melbourne’s Brimbank park, wildlife expert says Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Thousands of flying foxes have perished in the heatwave that scorched south-east Australia last week, the…
The largest Roman villa ever found in Wales lies less than a metre under Margam Country Park.
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Charity plans to make stately homes more welcoming by inviting visitors to use furniture and reading rooms There was a time, not so long ago, when a visit to a National Trust stately home could be a staid affair and…
Experts say dwindling snowfall during winter will impact the lives and livelihoods of millions.
Conservation often presents itself as a technical enterprise: how much land to protect, which species to prioritize, what policies deliver results. A recent paper in Nature argues that this framing misses something fundamental. Many of the field’s most persistent failures,…