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Rare Flowers Destroyed In Australia After Paperwork Error

Australian biosecurity officers have destroyed historic plant specimens on loan from France after a paperwork mix-up. A box of rare daisies from the 1850s had been sent to ...

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New Method Can Selectively Remove Micro-pollutants From Water

Researchers have developed a new method for removing even extremely low levels of unwanted compounds from water. The new method relies on an electrochemical process to sele...

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Newt Sandwich For A Baby Bird

Through french windows framed by flowering clematis, I saw a blackbird touch down on the lawn. Leaning even as it landed, its beak led it in a pitter-patter metre-dash for ...

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The Week In Wildlife: Pictures

A Sumatran tiger, an alligator and a humpback whale are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world Water frogs in the botanical garden in Heidelberg, Ger...

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Amazing Haul Of Ancient Human Finds Unveiled

A new haul of ancient human remains has been described from an important cave site in South Africa. The finds, including a well-preserved skull, bolster the idea that the H...

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10 Selfish Reasons To Save Elephants

Elephants can help humans live longer, healthier, happier lives. Help them, and we help ourselves It sometimes feels as if we are living in the elephant’s darkest hou...

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New Robotic Fish For Environmental Monitoring

A group of researchers from Centre for Automation and Robotics (CAR CSIC-UPM) in collaboration with researchers from University of Florence are designing autonomous underwa...

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Luis Miranda: Perhaps The Oil Industry Saved More Whales Than Environmental NGO's Did

There’s a lot of talk on impact investing these days and I’ve been involved in my fair share of these discussions. Impact investing has excited a lot of people....

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'Fake Females' To Aid Rare Moth Work In Cairngorms

In the UK, the Kentish glory is only found in north east Scotland. Their fast flight makes the species hard to identify so conservationists are to lure males to the "fake f...

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Identity Of Famous Baby Dinosaur Fossil Revealed

The fossil of a baby dinosaur discovered in China more than 25 years ago has formally been identified as a new species of feathered dinosaur. The hatchling, dubbed Baby Lou...

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