Tag: Wildlife

The unbearable truth about the polar vortex spinning over the Midwest is that it has brought record-breaking low temperatures so frigid even a polar bear cannot bear to be outside.

The British Trust for Ornithology is asking the public to take part in a survey to assess the effect of light and heat pollution on garden birds.

‘ It is “highly unlikely” ancient woodland would be destroyed under new plans to speed up the planning process, the government has insisted.

The deep biosphere—a realm of sediments buried far below the seafloor—harbors diverse, thriving communities of life, according a new study by scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the University of Delaware (UD).

Heavy rain and strong winds are disrupting road, rail and sea travel ahead of the Christmas break in parts of the UK. About 3,000 homes and businesses in Cornwall are without power, while 9,000 are without power in Berkshire.

Dozens of Scottish shellfish nurseries will be protected under new legislation that has come into force.

U.S. officials warned today of an “urgent” need to stop the increasing “slaughter of magnificent creatures” around the world, as they announced a “significant” step toward fighting animal poaching.

The Mirror revealed a series of stunning photographs of a 50-ton southern right whale and her calves meandering in shallow waters off the coast of Argentina.

A cave on the northwestern coast of Sumatra holds a remarkable record of big tsunamis in the Indian Ocean.

Hundreds of grey seals have been lost on the north Norfolk coast due  to the deadly storm surge, say experts.

In the study, scientists tracked lemon sharks in the Bahamas for 17  years to prove the case.

Researchers say that some monkeys in South and Central America eat as many as 50 different species of fruit a day.

Dangerous radioactive medical material taken when a lorry was stolen in Mexico has been found, local officials say.

Ten whales have died and as many as 30 more are stranded after a pod beached off Florida’s Everglades National Park, US government officials have said.

A two-storey wildlife observatory is nearing completion at the home of one of only two known pairs of breeding ospreys in Wales.

Thousands of wildebeest have returned early from Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park in a move park officials say is rare.

A virus that hit farms in the UK last year came from midges blown across the Channel from France and Belgium, scientists have confirmed.

A new species of wild cat has been identified in South America using molecular markers, researchers claim.

Stories abound of humans brought up by wild animals, but often they are pure fiction.

Seahorses may appear slow and awkward but they are ferocious and ingenious predators, according to a new study.

Plans for a huge wind farm off the north Devon coast have been shelved.

Great tits use different alarm calls for different predators, according to a scientist in Japan.

Scientists in Spain have received funding to test whether an extinct mountain goat can be cloned from preserved cells.

By Bob Walker Elephants and humans are coming into contact with each other more often in Malaysia. The areas where elephants used to roam are being built upon or used for agriculture. Some favour relocating them to a national park…

By Chris Ellis A project aimed at protecting internationally important seabird populations on two of the Isles of Scilly by killing more than 3,000 brown rats, is under way.

By Paul Rincon A team of researchers says it has identified a new species of humpback dolphin. Physical and genetic evidence suggests that cetaceans found in waters off northern Australia are distinct within the  humpback family.

Japan’s hunting of dolphins, smaller whales and porpoises is threatening some species with extinction in its coastal waters, a report by a British environmental group has said.

A wild boar which has been on the loose in Alderney for more than a month is thought to have swum there from the nearby French coast.

By Victoria Gill African elephants’ decision-making abilities are left impaired by culling operations that ended decades ago, University of Sussex research suggests.