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Wildlife, Nature, Environment, articles, BBC Radio 4 programmes, writing & features - Paul Evans
For the first time, all the UK wildlife organisations have joined forces to compile a health check of nature in the UK and its overseas territories. This evening Sir David Attenborough will help us launch a new State of Nature ...
Bloomberg Climate Scientist Hansen Turns Activist, Advocates 'Fee' on Carbon Pollution Bloomberg James Hansen, the former NASA climate scientist who first brought climate change to the attention of Congress in the 1980s, stepped down as head of the...
Unless greater efforts are made to reverse current trends, the world will run out of freshwater, the United Nations said today marking the International Day for Biological Diversity and urging stronger scientific alliances to understand and protect...
RT @FAOnews: #Biodiversity, the variety of life on Earth, is a vital ingredient of human survival and welfare. Learn more http://t.co/4SVQqBAOj1
NGOs join forces to reveal 60% of UK species in decline and 10% at risk of extinction.
Protected areas cover more than one fifth of the land in the 39 countries working with the European Environment Agency (EEA).
The Atlantic The Unexpected Ways a Fetus Is Shaped by a Mother's Environment The Atlantic Researchers in the increasingly influential field known as fetal origins—the study of how fetal conditions affect long-term health—have to be pretty creative.
New research from North Carolina State University and the University of Colorado shows that households with dogs are home to more types of bacteria - including bacteria that are rarely found in households that do not have dogs.
While humans have harnessed the power of yeast to ferment bread and beer, the function of yeast or other types of fungi that live in and on the human body is not well understood.
Video: Two Galaxies on a Collision Course - ScienceNOW
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Frogs, toads and salamanders have been in trouble for decades, but a new U.S.
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A Mediterranean diet with a boost of fat proves to be good for cognitive ability, say researchers in Spain.
Pinpointing how nature's benefits link to human well-being Science Daily (press release) May 22, 2013 — What people take from nature -- water, food, timber, inspiration, relaxation -- are so abundant, it seems self-evident.
Eggs and nests of protected raptors destroyed to protect pheasant shoot, according to FoI documents (RT @HowardJones88: Did the public outcry over #buzzardgate even matter last year?
From caribou herds to landlocked seals, Canada’s boreal forest is rich in biodiversity treasures and just as worthy of global attention and protection as the Amazon, according to two leading conservation groups.
Scientists say a new geologic epoch has begun whereby humans are causing major damage to global water systems. They warn of a planetary transformation comparable to the retreat of the glaciers mor...
George Monbiot: The hills have been grazed to destruction and it's time we begin to challenge the irrational aspects of the farming funding system (A must-read : Why Britain's barren uplands have farming subsidies to blame | George Monbiot
The Week Magazine Is Greek yogurt hurting the environment? The Week Magazine Not only would that be illegal, but whey decomposition is toxic to the natural environment, robbing oxygen from streams and rivers.
Industrial farming has played a part in sucking this critical element out of our soil.
Two new minute spider species have been discovered from the Sichuan and Chongqing, China.
An order against keeping dolphins in captivity has now been passed by the Union ministry of environment and forests.
The energy required to swim efficiently is likely what makes some seabirds poor fliers
The debate on how long to breastfeed now has a Neanderthal spin with analysis of a fossilised tooth suggesting primitive mothers breastfed exclusively for just seven months.
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