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By Jack Bojan11th February 2022 Imagine a creature that is both hairy like a mammal and scaly like a fish,...
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Leigh West24th December 2020 Children know that the North Pole is home to Santa’s workshop and is bustling during the...
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This week the new theme for the autumn edition of the I,Science magazine, which is Earth, as our inspiration. There...
The rich biodiversity of Nepal is a tribute to its diverse climate, altitudinal variation and geography. In total 118 ecosystems...
Could beavers be successfully re-established in Britain and what affect would they have on local biodiversity? Beavers are ecosystem engineers...
Long-term insect surveillance initiatives, such as the Rothamsted Insect Survey and the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, allow ongoing assessments of...
Our annual nature fair and celebration of UK natural history and biodiversity is back. Explore UK wildlife, meet experts who...
Over the last 50 years, an increasing number of wild animal translocations have been undertaken for conservation purposes. Wild animal...
Opening the 2015 Authors for Animals programme former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion considers the seahorse – a creature with a...
Good communication between policy makers and scientists is a crucial requirement for developing policies that cost-effectively achieve measurable outcomes in...
Economic growth has undoubtedly improved human livelihoods yet has equally convincingly had negative effects on the environment. Scientists are considering...
Anthropogenic environmental changes, such as global land use and land cover change, driven by rapid human population growth and increasing...
Can the coral reefs be saved? Marine biologist Dr Mary Hagedorn has adapted human IVF techniques to freeze coral sperm...
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Andrew Purcell White Stork (Ciconia ciconia) You may be aware of species, such as kangaroos for instance, which use saliva...
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Andrew Purcell Increasing average global temperatures are allowing alien species from Mediterranean climates to invade into more northerly areas....
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Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) There is a paradox in nature conservation, that the efforts taken to protect a species from extinction,...
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Amur (Siberian) Tiger Panthera tigris altaica (Photo by Andrew Purcell) The Chinese Year of the Tiger came to an end...
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Andrew Purcell Painted Lady (Cynthia cardui) Almost a third of butterflies in Europe are in decline and one in ten...
