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Cameras capture lone creature collecting materials for its lodge in riverside nature reserve
A wild beaver has been spotted in Norfolk for the first time since beavers were hunted to extinction in England at the beginning of the 16th century.
It was filmed dragging logs and establishing a lodge in a “perfect beaver habitat” on the River Wensum at Pensthorpe, a nature reserve near Fakenham in Norfolk.
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Exclusive: ‘extremely unhelpful’ policy seen as deterrent to clearing thousands of dump sites across England
Millions of pounds in landfill tax owed to the government has to be paid by the Environment Agency (EA) if it clears any of the thousands of illegal waste dumps across the country.
Of the £15m that taxpayers are paying for the clearance of the only site the agency has committed to clearing up – a vast illegal dump at Hoad’s Wood in Kent – £4m is landfill tax.
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Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk: I have memories of seeing them at night, on our pyjama-clad safaris round the farm, but they haven’t been here for a decade
There’s a shimmering in the sky and I can’t work it out. Driving, I can only snatch glimpses of flickering light. I pull into a lay-by near home. Now I can make out five or six broad-winged birds, flying in a loose flock. They are black and white and their motion reflects the low sun, flashing light and contrasting dark, like a disturbance in the force field.
Lapwings, or “peewits” as they are known for their call, are birds of my childhood. Every spring, they nested in the same field and, in winter, flocks gathered. I loved their crest and the way their petrol-sheened plumage changed with the light, from dark green to bronze or purple.
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RSPB says growing trend for honouring species that are in decline is not matched by action on conservation
Britain’s street names are being inspired by skylarks, lapwings and starlings, even as bird populations decline.
According to a report by the RSPB, names such as Skylark Lane and Swift Avenue are increasingly common. Using OS Open Names data from 2004 to 2024, the conservation charity found that road names featuring bird species had risen by 350% for skylarks, 156% for starlings and 104% for lapwings, despite populations of these having fallen in the wild.
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Conservationists say changes, coupled with underfunding, will curb take-up and leave less land protected for nature
An ambitious scheme to restore England’s nature over coming decades has been undermined after the government inserted a clause allowing it to terminate contracts with only a year’s notice, conservationists have said.
The project was designed to fund landscape-scale restoration over thousands of hectares, whether on large estates or across farms and nature reserves. The idea was to create huge reserves for rare species to thrive – projects promoted as decades-long commitments to securing habitat for wildlife well into the future.
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This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world
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‘Soilsmology’ aims to map world’s soils and help avert famine, says not-for-profit co-founded by George Monbiot
A groundbreaking soil-health measuring technique could help avert famine and drought, scientists have said.
At the moment, scientists have to dig lots of holes to study the soil, which is time-consuming and damages its structure, making the sampling less accurate.
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Mark Carney is considering lifting a tanker ban that has protected coastal communities for 53 years
The distress call went out to the Canadian coast guard station after midnight on an October night. The Nathan E Stewart, an American-flagged tugboat, sailing through the light winds and rain of the central British Columbia coast, had grounded on a reef.
The captain tried to reverse, moving the rudder from hard over port to hard over starboard. The boat pivoted but did not move, and the tug repeatedly struck the sea bed.
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Bureaucratic delays and funding shortages stall plans to carve out a forest reserve for the uncontacted Indigenous group on the southern fringe of the Brazilian Amazon
In 2024, agents of the National Foundation for Indigenous Peoples (Funai) walked more than 60 miles through rainforest on the southern fringe of the Brazilian Amazon on a mission to monitor and help protect a group of Indigenous people who had no contact with the modern world.
What they found was a small basket freshly woven from leaves, a child’s footprints on the bank of a creek, and tree trunks hacked open hours before to extract honey. There were huts abandoned a year before that were sinking into the forest floor, and brazil nut pods discarded around old campfires. They were all signs that the Pardo River Kawahiva people were there.
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Former Perth curator Mark Harvey is one of the few people on Earth to have described 1,000 new species, many of them arachnids. Colleagues say his legacy is ‘unquantifiable’
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For most people around the world, 16 August 1977 was memorable because it was the day Elvis Presley died.
“We turned the radio on when we got back in the car and that was the headline. Elvis was dead,” remembers Dr Mark Harvey.
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Genetska varijanta vjerojatno dovodi neku djecu koja pate od miokarditisa - upale srčanog mišića - u veći rizik od razvoja zatajenja srca, što može biti fatalno, pokazuje nova studija.
Upala pluća može izazvati srčane komplikacije poput zatajenja srca, aritmija ili srčanog udara koje uzrokuju smrt. Sada su američki znanstvenici identificirali bakterijski enzim nazvan zmpB, koji bi mogao biti razlog zašto neki ljudi dobiju srčane komplikacije s upalom pluća, dok drugi ne.
Žene koje prijavljuju visoku razinu psihosocijalnog stresa, poput stresa uzrokovanog brigom i nedostatkom emocionalne podrške, pokazuju znakove ranih promjena srčanog tkiva povezanih s kardiovaskularnim bolestima – povezanost koja nije uočena kod muškaraca, otkriva nova studija.
Dugotrajna izloženost uobičajenim onečišćujućim tvarima zraka povezana je s uznapredovalijom koronarnom bolešću srca, pokazuje studija provedena na više od 11.000 odraslih osoba.
Prema rezultatima novog istraživanja, suzbijanje uobičajenog dječjeg virusa moglo bi otvoriti vrata sprječavanju raka mokraćnog mjehura. Naime, studija sugerira da BK poliomavirus (BKPyV) koji većina ljudi pokupi u djetinjstvu može izazvati vrstu oštećenja DNK koja može dovesti do raka mokraćnog mjehura kasnije u životu.
Osobe s oštećenom funkcijom bubrega imaju više razine biomarkera za Alzheimerovu bolest u krvi, ali ne i povećan rizik od demencije, tvrdi nova studija. Iako nije otkriveno da smanjena funkcija bubrega povećava rizik od razvoja demencije, otkriveno je da oštećena funkcija bubrega može ubrzati pojavu demencije kod ljudi koji imaju više razine biomarkera.
Rizik od iznenadne srčane smrti veći je i za osobe s dijabetesom tipa 1 i dijabetesom tipa 2, pokazuje nova studije. Povećanje rizika posebno je uočljivo među mlađim odraslim osobama. Iznenadna srčana smrt je kada netko iznenada i neočekivano umre zbog problema sa srcem. Općenito je rijetka kod mladih i naizgled zdravih osoba.
Mikrobi u našem tijelu ne samo da pomažu u razgradnji hrane, već utječu i na naše zdravlje. Ipak, njihov točan utjecaj nije uvijek shvaćen, posebno u prisutnosti lijekova.. Sada nova studija izvještava kako jedna od najzastupljenijih crijevnih bakterija, Bacteroides dorei, reagira na tetracikline, klasu često propisivanih antibiotika.
Rak dojke može modificirati limfne žile kroz koje putuje do drenažnih limfnih čvorova te se odatle može proširiti na druge dijelove tijela, pokazuje nova studija. Smatra se, da bi ovo otkriće moglo pomoći u razvoju ciljanih terapija koje bi mogle spriječiti ovo širenje.
Američki znanstvenici s Columbia University otkrili su da nedostatak željeza u prehrani u ranoj dobi može spriječiti imunološke stanice u plućima da proizvode ključni protein koji pomaže u borbi protiv virusnih infekcija, čak i nakon što se razina željeza obnovi.
