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Is this the end of migration?
Climate change is affecting bird behaviour at a staggering rate. Some 20 billion have already changed their flight plans
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Botanists seek help in tree count
Saturday, 17 April 2010
The first ever census of cherry trees in the UK is being undertaken to map where they grow and when they flower, the Natural History Museum said yesterday.
Animal rights activists lose battle to ban badger cull
Saturday, 17 April 2010
Court rules animals can be killed in Wales in bid to prevent spread of bovine TB
Judge upholds badger cull plan to tackle TB
Friday, 16 April 2010
Controversial plans to carry out a mass cull of badgers as part of efforts to control bovine TB in Wales were upheld today.
Couple's endangered species trade
Friday, 16 April 2010
A couple who ran a pet shop turned their hand to illegal trading in the skins and bones of some of the most endangered species in the world.
Asian hornet on the way to prey on honeybees
Thursday, 15 April 2010
Invasion of predators across Channel threatens massacre of bee colonies
Volcanic ash 'could take 36 hours to cross UK'
Thursday, 15 April 2010
Volcanic ash from the eruption in Iceland could take between 24 and 36 hours to drift across the UK - if there is no more volcanic activity, weather forecasters said today.
Tadpoles scream when threatened by cannibals
Thursday, 15 April 2010
Some might think it's up there with the flying pig and the killer rabbit, in the list of improbable animals – the screaming tadpole. But it's real.
Great Barrier Reef could take 20 years to recover from grounding
Wednesday, 14 April 2010
A coal carrier, which ran aground and leaked oil on the Great Barrier Reef, cut a two-mile-long scar into the shoal and may have smeared paint which will prevent marine life from growing back.
Veteran osprey lays her first egg of 2010
Wednesday, 14 April 2010
Britain's oldest breeding female osprey has produced her first egg of the season, wildlife experts confirmed yesterday.
Reef may take twenty years to recover from damage
Tuesday, 13 April 2010
A coal carrier which ran aground and leaked about three tons of oil on Australia's Great Barrier Reef completely pulverised parts of a shoal and caused damage so severe it could take marine life 20 years to recover, the reef's chief scientist said today.
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