By Jan Hoole, Keele University Finding oneself improperly dressed for the weather can have fatal consequences – just ask a white-coated weasel. Animals that live in areas that usually have a lot of...
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By Louise Gentle, Nottingham Trent University Puffins are facing a perilous future. Population numbers have fallen sharply, and there are even fears the sea bird could be heading towards extinction within the next 100...
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The annual Orca Watch event took place from Saturday 26th May until Saturday 2nd June 2018 in Caithness, around the Orkney and Shetland Isles and it was full of fantastic cetacean sightings. Sea Watch Foundation in collaboration with...
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Ben Nevis. Standing at 1345m high and towering like a giant over Fort William, it is the highest peak in the British Isles. Climbed by thousands every year it is considered quite the...
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Yesterday, MCS announced an exciting partnership with company Silentnight, to transform some of the million plastic bottles bought every minute, into mattresses. The UK’s leading marine charity, The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) has...
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When the American comb jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi, also known as sea walnut, conquered the Black Sea as a new habitat 35 years ago, the ecosystem there changed sustainably. The economically important anchovy stocks...
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By James Watson, The University of Queensland; James Allan, The University of Queensland; Kendall Jones, The University of Queensland; Pablo Negret, The University of Queensland; Richard Fuller, The University of Queensland, and Sean Maxwell,...
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By Clara Mackenzie, University of Stirling and Joanne Porter, Heriot-Watt University Across the North Atlantic, shipwrecks scatter the seabed like the carcasses of prehistoric creatures. Bygone relics of sea exploration, trade, migration and conflict,...
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By Emily O’Connor, Lund University Animals have a habit of moving. Sometimes these movements are truly epic. Migratory birds regularly traverse the globe between temperate and tropical regions, a feat that would require considerable...
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Chris Fogwill, Keele University; Chris Turney, UNSW, and Zoe Robinson, Keele University Ever since the ancient Greeks speculated a continent must exist in the south polar regions to balance those in the north,...
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