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Drax cleared after investigation into sourcing of wood pellets

admin — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 08:13:40 +0000

Generator’s shares rise as regulator finds no evidence of misleading statements about fuel’s sustainability

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The City watchdog has closed an investigation into the power generator Drax after an almost 10-month review into the sourcing of wood pellets for its biomass station.

‘The sea took everything away’: how Nigeria’s ‘Happy City’ is disappearing beneath the waves

admin — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 08:00:01 +0000

More than half of Ayetoro – a Christian utopia founded in the 1940s – has been lost to the ocean, and its remaining people are running out of options

In the early hours of 15 February 2019, the Atlantic Ocean came for Arowo Victoria’s livelihood. The 60-year-old retired midwife was asleep when neighbours began banging on her door, shouting that the sea had started covering buildings along the nearby coastline.

Cambridge experts recreate 336-year-old garden to commemorate ‘father of natural history’

admin — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0000

John Ray, 17th-century botanist who coined words petal and pollen, was a tutor at Cambridge when he created his first garden

He coined the terms petal and pollen, helped to lay the foundations of modern biology and is widely regarded as the greatest English naturalist of the 17th century.

But it was while he was a young college tutor at Cambridge in the 1650s that the botanist John Ray – also known as “the father of natural history” – created his first known garden and began to systematically study plants for the first time.

A bonanza for fans of the natural world: the digital library sharing 64m pages of scientific knowledge with everyone

admin — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 07:00:03 +0000

The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities. Now its future is in doubt

Some go there to read about the wood that Victorian manufacturers used to make walking sticks. Others want to see an illustration of a Tasmanian tiger or marvel at the field diary of one of the first known botanists to explore the Antarctic.

More than 13,000 seal pups die on remote Australian island amid bird flu outbreak

admin — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 04:51:04 +0000

Testing confirms spread of deadly H5N1 virus on the subantarctic Heard Island, about 4,000km south-west of Perth

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‘Most famous tree in the world’: Sherwood Forest’s 1,000-year-old Major oak dies

admin — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 23:01:46 +0000

Nottinghamshire tree, one of Europe’s oldest and largest, fails to produce leaves after being stressed by series of hot, dry summers

The Major oak, one of Europe’s oldest, largest and most celebrated ancient trees, has died.

The huge tree, which has grown in Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire, England, for at least 1,000 years, failed to produce any leaves this year, after becoming stressed by a series of hot, dry summers.

Even as Florida moves detainees from ‘Alligator Alcatraz’, activists fight for its permanent closure

admin — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:28:08 +0000

Groups cite detainee maltreatment and degradation of surrounding land as reasons to close facility permanently

Atlantic hurricane season opens with Tropical Storm Arthur inundating Gulf coast

admin — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:55:07 +0000

The southern US is seeing intense rain that is expected to cause dangerous flash flooding

Honeybees make specialised ‘baby food’ to give larvae balanced diet, study says

admin — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:00:35 +0000

Researchers also discover bees can adjust their diets when pollen sources do not provide healthy level of nutrients

Honeybees blend a special “baby food” to give their larvae a balanced diet, with adult bees also able to regulate their feeding to avoid overconsuming certain nutrients, according to a study.

Researchers have discovered that bees can adjust how much they eat when pollen sources do not provide them with the ideal balance of essential amino acids, the essential building blocks of protein that animals cannot make for themselves and must obtain from their diet.

Okra up north: how a forgotten heirloom travelled the African diaspora to Toronto

admin — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:00:33 +0000

Okra holds a special place in many African-descended communities, and a Canadian farmer with Jamaican roots is growing a very old variety

When Nicole Austin was growing up in Oshawa, Canada, her Jamaican family couldn’t find the foods they enjoyed back on the island. No callaloo, garden eggs or okra. Austin’s grandmother grew certain things in her backyard, but only if she had the necessary seeds.