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Commuters face chaos as more snow is forecast
Commuters can expect travel chaos tomorrow after forecasters predicted significant snowfall in the South-east of England.
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Villagers evacuated as volcano erupts
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
The Philippines' most active volcano oozed lava and shot up plumes of ash yesterday, forcing thousands of people to evacuate their homes.
Michael McCarthy: Why scruffy sites mean rich pickings
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
Nature Notebook: There was the black redstart, nesting amidst the 1950s pin-striped stockbrokers
Will Galapagos become the Pacific's Ibiza?
Sunday, 13 December 2009
Charles Darwin's wilderness is under pressure from tourism and urban growth. Hugh O'Shaughnessy and Sarah Clark report on Ecuador's fight back
'Krak' (that's falling branch in monkey speak)
Saturday, 12 December 2009
Researchers claim to have deciphered the way primates communicate
Antarctic nations plan tough new shipping controls
Saturday, 12 December 2009
Countries that manage Antarctica plan to impose tough new controls on ships visiting the southern oceans and the fuels they use to reduce the threat of human and environmental disasters posed by increasing numbers of tourists, officials said today.
Hares, birds and orchids: the casualties of peace in Cyprus
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Wildlife has flourished in the no-man's land that divides the country – but reconciliation could end all that
Going home: orphans of the gorilla massacre
Friday, 4 December 2009
Two baby gorillas who survived an attack in a Congo national park have made their first move back to the wild.
English voyager finds whales in Egyptian desert
Thursday, 3 December 2009
Driving through the desert in search of whales sounds counterproductive, but I had been assured that if I hired a jeep and drove seventy kilometres from Egypt’s Faiyum Oasis out into the Sahara this is indeed what I would find. If this was a ruse it was a clever one, and UNESCO were in on it.
Wind farms fall prey to demands of the golden eagle
Wednesday, 2 December 2009
Decision to set aside land to protect birds threatens renewable energy plans
Smallest orchid in the world is found
Monday, 30 November 2009
Tiny transparent flower from Ecuador one of 60 new species discovered by botanist
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