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Stingless bees from the Amazon granted legal rights in world first

admin — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 14:00:44 +0000

Planet’s oldest bee species and primary pollinators were under threat from deforestation and competition from ‘killer bees’

Stingless bees from the Amazon have become the first insects to be granted legal rights anywhere in the world, in a breakthrough supporters hope will be a catalyst for similar moves to protect bees elsewhere.

It means that across a broad swathe of the Peruvian Amazon, the rainforest’s long-overlooked native bees – which, unlike their cousins the European honeybees, have no sting – now have the right to exist and to flourish.

Queensland to continue to allow farmers to shoot flying foxes after revoking ban on controversial practice

admin — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 14:00:43 +0000

Conservationists and scientists criticise state for backtracking and say alternative non-lethal methods such as netting are more effective

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From ‘global cooling’ to ‘beautiful coal’: Trump’s startling climate claims of 2025

admin — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 12:30:35 +0000

Trump ratcheted up his questionable claims about the environment and how to deal, if at all, with the threats to it

In the past decade at the forefront of US politics, Donald Trump has unleashed a barrage of unusual, misleading or dubious assertions about the climate crisis, which he most famously called a “hoax”.

This year has seen Trump ratchet up his often questionable claims about the environment and how to deal, if at all, with the threats to it. In a year littered with lies and wild declarations, these are the five that stood out as the most startling.

‘Cities need nature to be happy’: David Attenborough seeks out London’s hidden wildlife

admin — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 12:00:35 +0000

Attenborough, 99, enthuses about tube-riding pigeons, foxes, parakeets and others in Wild London for the BBC

Filming the wildlife of London requires an intrepid, agile presenter, willing to lie on damp grass after dark to encounter hedgehogs, scale heights to hold a peregrine falcon chick, and stake out a Tottenham allotment to get within touching distance of wary wild foxes.

Step forward Sir David Attenborough, who spent his 100th summer seeking out the hidden nature of his home city for an unusually personal and intimate BBC documentary.

The hill I will die on: Pigeons are working-class heroes and deserve some respect | Toussaint Douglass

admin — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 08:00:31 +0000

These unfairly maligned animals were nuggets for our ancestors and served for the UK during the second world war

Is there something I would figuratively die on a hill for? Yes, there is – and as it happens, I’m sitting on a literal hill right now, feeding them. Pigeons. Why pigeons? Because it’s about time they get the respect they deserve.

The mystery of flight MH370: will a new search find the missing airliner after more than a decade?

admin — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 05:00:30 +0000

In 2014 the Malaysian Airlines jet vanished over the Indian Ocean. Now the team that located Shackleton’s Endurance is looking again with the latest undersea robots

Search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 expected to resume on Tuesday

More than a decade after Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 went missing after veering thousands of miles off course, its location remains unknown.

London Eye architect proposes 14-mile tidal power station off Somerset coast

admin — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 11:07:04 +0000

West Somerset Lagoon would harness renewable energy for UK’s AI boom – and create ‘iconic’ arc around Bristol Channel

The architect of the London Eye wants to build a vast tidal power station in a 14-mile arc off the coast of Somerset that could help Britain meet surging electricity demand to power artificial intelligence – and create a new race track to let cyclists skim over the Bristol Channel.

A conversation between Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson summed up 2025 for me – and not in a good way | George Monbiot

admin — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 08:00:34 +0000

From merrily dismissing climate science, to promoting irresponsible health claims, the podcast was an unintentional warning for our times

‘Ghost resorts’: as hundreds of ski slopes lie abandoned, will nature reclaim the Alps?

admin — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 06:48:56 +0000

With the snow line edging higher, 186 French ski resorts have shut, while global heating threatens dozens more

When Céüze 2000 ski resort closed at the end of the season in 2018, the workers assumed they would be back the following winter. Maps of the pistes were left stacked beside a stapler; the staff rota pinned to the wall.

Six years on, a yellowing newspaper dated 8 March 2018 sits folded on its side, as if someone has just flicked through it during a quiet spell. A half-drunk bottle of water remains on the table.

No significant projected climate change effects on the geographic ranges of marine aquaculture species under the sustainable scenario (SSP 1-1.9, 1.5°C warming)

admin — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 05:00:00 +0000

npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 27 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s44183-025-00178-7

No significant projected climate change effects on the geographic ranges of marine aquaculture species under the sustainable scenario (SSP 1-1.9, 1.5°C warming)