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Cut back your roses? Berkeley sets new rules for its most wildfire-prone areas

admin — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 20:22:33 +0000

Residents of California city’s high-risk areas will be required to remove plants within 5ft of homes under fire safety rules

The city of Berkeley has a new message for residents of its most fire-prone neighborhoods: it’s time to cut back your gardens.

People living in the most high-fire-risk areas of the California city will be required to remove plants and other flammable materials close to their homes as part of strict new wildfire safety rules the city moved to adopt this week.

Cut back your roses? Berkeley sets new rules for its most wildfire-prone areas

admin — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 20:22:33 +0000

Residents of California city’s high-risk areas will be required to remove plants within 5ft of homes under fire safety rules

The city of Berkeley has a new message for residents of its most fire-prone neighborhoods: it’s time to cut back your gardens.

Live colossal squid captured on video in wild for first time ever – video

admin — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 17:13:45 +0000

The colossal squid, the heaviest invertebrate in the world, has been filmed alive in the wild for the first time since it was identified a century ago. The individual – captured on film near the South Sandwich Islands in the south Atlantic Ocean – is a baby, at just 11.8in (30cm) in length

Live colossal squid captured on video in wild for first time ever

Live colossal squid captured on video in wild for first time ever

admin — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 16:07:50 +0000

A young Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, the heaviest invertebrate on earth, was filmed in the Atlantic Ocean

The colossal squid, the heaviest invertebrate in the world, has been filmed alive in the wild for the first time since it was identified a century ago.

Council plans legal action over ancient London oak felled by Toby Carvery

admin — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 15:36:12 +0000

Enfield council disputes restaurant chain’s claim 500-year-old tree in Whitewebbs Park was ‘mostly dead’

Toby Carvery has been threatened with legal action by a council over the felling of an ancient oak in a park in north London.

The restaurant chain is facing national outrage after its decision to fell the up to 500-year-old tree without warning on 3 April.

Endangered greater gliders recorded in proposed great koala national park in NSW as logging continues

admin — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 15:00:15 +0000

Conservation groups call for immediate action to protect wildlife as two-year wait for Labor’s promised creation of park continues

Lab-grown chicken ‘nuggets’ hailed as ‘transformative step’ for cultured meat

admin — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 15:00:14 +0000

Japanese-led team grow 11g chunk of chicken – and say product could be on market in five- to 10 years

Researchers are claiming a breakthrough in lab-grown meat after producing nugget-sized chunks of chicken in a device that mimics the blood vessels that make up the circulatory system.

The approach uses fine hollow fibres to deliver oxygen and nutrients to chicken muscle cells suspended in a gel, an advance that allowed scientists to grow lumps of meat up to 2cm long and 1cm thick.

Romania says it may have twice as many bears as was thought

admin — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 11:32:49 +0000

DNA study estimates brown bear population at 13,000 as minister promises law to make it easier to put them down

Romania may be home to as many as 13,000 brown bears, almost twice as many as previously thought, the country’s forestry research institute has said, as officials promised new laws to allow communities to deal with “crisis bear situations”.

Number of UK homes overheating soars to 80% in a decade, study finds

admin — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 11:28:18 +0000

Researchers say urgent action needed to inform people about risks of heatwave temperatures and adapt homes

The number of UK homes overheating in summer quadrupled to 80% over the past decade, according to a study, with experts calling the situation a crisis.

Heat already kills thousands of people each year in the UK and the toll will rise as the climate crisis intensifies. Urgent action is needed both to inform people on how to cope with high temperatures and to adapt homes, which are largely designed to keep heat in during the winter, the researchers said.

UK government report calls for taskforce to save England’s historic trees

admin — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 10:40:25 +0000

Exclusive: Ancient oaks ‘as precious as stately homes’ could receive stronger legal safeguards under new proposals

Ancient and culturally important trees in England could be given legal protections under plans set out in a UK government-commissioned report.

Sentencing guidelines would be changed so those who destroy important trees would face tougher criminal penalties. Additionally, a database of such trees would be drawn up and they could be given automatic protections, with the current system of tree preservation orders strengthened to accommodate this.