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Ten fascinating natural phenomena
Following news that a 200ft-deep 'sinkhole' opened up in a Guatemala City street during the tropical storm Agatha, we take a look at other peculiar natural occurrences.
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Your countryside needs you: call for citizen scientists
Wednesday, 2 June 2010
Members of the public are being urged to become "citizen scientists" by recording their sightings of local wildlife in order to combat the global extinction of species.
Threat to 24-year moratorium on whaling
Tuesday, 1 June 2010
Michael McCarthy: New deal would allow Japan, Norway and Iceland to recommence whaling legally
Leopards die after rescue from deposed leader's zoo
Tuesday, 1 June 2010
Two rare snow leopards which belonged to Kyrgyzstan's ousted president have died from starvation, it has been revealed.
Water quality on UK beaches is up
Monday, 31 May 2010
Water at nearly all beaches used by bathers in England and Wales is clean enough to meet the highest European standards, the Environment Agency said today.
Bank notes, fraud and butterfly wings
Monday, 31 May 2010
bank notes and credit cards could be made harder to counterfeit after scientists copied the iridescence of a butterfly's wings.
Oil spill creates huge undersea 'dead zones'
Sunday, 30 May 2010
Emily Dugan: Clouds of crude and chemical dispersants have formed in the Gulf of Mexico due to oil spill.
The busy mother with 11 hungry mouths to feed
Saturday, 29 May 2010
They suffered more than most bird species during the unusually cold snap in January.
Come on in, the water's lovely
Friday, 28 May 2010
More than half of the UK's beaches have excellent water quality, a report for the Marine Conservation Society has found.
Dragons breed in Britain
Thursday, 27 May 2010
Bizarre sea dragons from Australia's west coast have been brought to the UK with hopes of becoming the first breeding group in the country.
Further evidence of the Sixth Great Extinction
Wednesday, 26 May 2010
Michael McCarthy: Species are vanishing quicker than at any point in the last 65 million years.
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