There’s No Such Thing As Seagulls
Seagulls are a common site in the UK, especially along coastlines and in coastal towns. However, it came as a surprise to learn that there is actually no such thing as the seagull....
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In a Jam: Wildlife Trafficking On The Rise
Traffic and trafficking. Two very different words, which spark thoughts of two entirely different scenarios. On the one hand there is traffic, thoughts of slow moving cars, being stuck on a road for...
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HS2 Project Told To Stop Cutting Into Ancient Woodland
Transport Secutary Grant Shapps has told the ambitious HS2 project that they must stop cutting into ancient woodland ‘unless absolutely necessary’ whilst a review of the project is undertaken. With concerns that the...
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None of Your Business?
‘It’s finally happened, you’ve both lost your minds!’ There I was, staring at my boyfriends phone, gazing intently at a message from his mother, with a rather unpleasant photo attached to it. A...
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8 Facts About UK River Wildlife to Celebrate World River Day
Today is the World Rivers Day (usually falling on the fourth Friday of each September). The longest river in the UK is the River Severn at 220 miles long; the river Thames is...
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The Threat of Invasive Species Across the UK May be Greater than You Think
Non-Native and Invasive Non-Native Species (also known as NNS and INNS respectively) are very rarely talked about, but the damage that they are doing locally and globally is pretty incredible. The main difference...
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The Environment Agency’s Q4 Performance – The Results
Last month the Environment Agency’s Corporate Scorecard for Quarter Four 2018 to 2019 was published on the gov.uk website. In it they outline their twelve key measures and how they are performing against...
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The Amazon Rainforest Fires: Where Are We Now?
The Amazon Rainforest is still burning weeks after it the full extent of the situation was realised. Astronauts on the International Space Station and NASA satellites which have been tracking the inferno have...
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Genomes of all 66,000 UK species to be sequenced in ambitous project
In what is an undoubtedly ambitious undertaking, The Darwin Tree of Life project is currently in the process of attempting to sequence the genomes of all UK species. This monumental piece of work is…
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Climate Change: Why Saving The UK’s Peatlands Is Crucial
I pull off the highest road in Yorkshire at the somewhat optimistically named Viewpoint. I’m almost 2,000 feet above sea level – high above Wharfedale on one side and Wensleydale on the other,...
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