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Ever wondered where a sea otter keeps its favourite rock? If so this is this is the article for you. 1. Fat Free Sea otters are the only marine mammal on...
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With 71% of our planet covered in water, there is little surprise that we have affectionately named ourselves ‘the blue planet’. For something that takes up some much space (360,600,000 km2 to be...
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Environmentalists have been celebrating the proposed ban on the sale of products containing microbeads from 2017, which was announced by DEFRA on 3rd September. The campaign to ban microbeads has been several years...
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Cigarettes, food wrappers, plastic bottles and bags… these are the top 4 items found on our coastlines and waterways according to oceanconservancy.org. With the news of an 85% drop in plastic bag usage in...
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The vaquita, the world’s rarest marine mammal, with only an estimated 60 left in the wild, has been given a beacon of hope. The Mexican government has announced that from September, there will...
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Fingers are crossed at RSPB’s Loch of Strathbeg reserve in Aberdeenshire for a pioneering pair of breeding little gulls Hydrocoloeus minutus. Theirs is the first recorded breeding attempt by little gulls in Scotland,...
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‘What’s it like? The big blue?’ ‘Ummm, big and blue.’ ‘…I knew it!’ It’s one of many amusing lines that finds itself integrated within the script of that fantastic film that is ‘Finding...
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I hope that the marketing team at NERC gets a pay rise. Earlier this week an online poll to name a new £200 million research vessel went viral after someone suggested the name...
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Scottish Natural Heritage has today said that a successful 2014-2015 breeding season offers glimmers of hope for seabird species including common guillemot and Atlantic puffin. This announcement follows the publication of the Seabird...
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Poephila cincta. The Black-throated finch. The parson finch. Whichever name you are familiar with or whichever name you choose, it doesn’t really matter, because all three refer to the same small bird. For the...
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