Whale watchers capture rare footage of miles-long cluster of dolphins ‘just having a great time’
A miles-long cluster of dolphins has been filmed leaping and gliding across Carmel Bay off the central coast of California, forming an unusual “super pod” of more than 1,500 of the marine creatures.
“They were on the horizon I feel like as far as I could see,” said Capt Evan Brodsky, with Monterey Bay Whale Watch, who captured drone footage of Friday’s huge gathering of Risso’s dolphins.
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01/28/2025 - 12:43
Research with smallholder farmers in Kenya shows that tree-planting schemes must account for complex local issues and preferences.
01/28/2025 - 12:38
Researchers unveil a new map and classification system that will help protect the unique plants and animals of Earth's most remote and fragile continent.
01/28/2025 - 12:12
Cold weather causes leak at Johnstown Flood Museum, which commemorates 1889 catastrophe that killed 2,209
A museum dedicated to commemorating the victims of a 19th-century flood in Pennsylvania has temporarily closed due to flooding – caused on the inside of the facility by a water leak stemming from recent, extremely cold weather, officials said on Monday.
Fortunately for its patrons, the Johnstown Flood Museum said on its social media accounts that “nothing of historic significance was affected” by the interior inundation.
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01/28/2025 - 10:24
Baby shark Yoko hatched in early January, flummoxing staff and experts at a US aquarium
Birds do it, bees do it. Even educated fleas do it, according to Cole Porter’s classic song on the universal nature of sex.
But a baby swell shark born in a Louisiana aquarium that houses only females has flummoxed marine experts and raised the possibility that the species may not require such earthly pleasures to produce offspring.
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01/28/2025 - 06:00
Research provides more evidence that food is a potentially overlooked exposure route to toxic ‘forever chemicals’
Produce grown in home gardens around a North Carolina PFAS plant contain dangerous levels of the chemicals, new research has found, providing more evidence that food is a potentially overlooked exposure route to the compounds, especially when grown near polluters.
The study’s authors say findings point to much of the contamination resulting from air emissions, which research increasingly suggests is an underestimated source of PFAS pollution.
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01/28/2025 - 04:53
Lib Dem Tim Farron seeks law to protect fund as Treasury tries to take control of £11m
Fines from water companies that pollute rivers must be ringfenced by law to be spent on restoring water quality in rivers, MPs will urge.
The Treasury is trying to take control of £11m in fines from water companies, which was intended for small charities to restore rivers, in a move criticised by river restoration campaigners as “appalling”.
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01/28/2025 - 03:07
The Hollywood actor was stopped mid-scene as a man and a woman climbed on stage at London's Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Hayley Walsh, 42, a lecturer from Nottingham, and Richard Weir, 60, a mechanical engineer from Tynemouth, set off a confetti cannon and held up a banner referring to the 1.5C global temperature rise as a 'shipwreck', a nod to the Shakespeare play that features a ship sinking at sea
Just Stop Oil activists interrupt play starring Sigourney Weaver in London
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01/28/2025 - 02:20
Two protesters walk on stage to boos and some cheers during performance of The Tempest in West End
Police are making inquiries into a Just Stop Oil protest that disrupted a West End performance of The Tempest starring Sigourney Weaver.
In a video shared to social media by the climate protest group, two protesters – Hayley Walsh and Richard Weir – can be seen walking on stage where Weaver, 75, was performing at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane on Monday.
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01/28/2025 - 00:00
Across the continent, millions of hectares of land are being used and run by local people coexisting with wildlife in spaces where both can thrive
Photographs by Nicoló Lanfranchi
Africa’s first national park was created 100 years ago by the Belgian colonial state in the Congo, and since then hundreds more have been developed – but in many areas there is more wildlife in protected areas run by local people.
Tens of millions of hectares across the continent are home to community-run “conservancies”, managed by herders, farmers and hunter-gatherers, who coexist with herds of large animals such as elephants, giraffes and buffalo.
The Nashulai conservancy in southern Kenya. The country now has more than 230 community-run reserves covering 16% of the country. Conservancies have helped wildlife recover while benefiting local people
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