Arctic: Climate change is making Beavers expand into Canada’s Arctic, where their dams are changing the landscape
North American beavers began colonising parts of Arctic in 2008. (Getty images) Beavers who are normally found in…
Thousands flee as wildfires hit France, Italy and Spain
Wildfires have raged through Sicily, southwestern France and central Spain, sparking thousands of evacuations and claiming the life…
Wolsingham waste site shut by Environment Agency
The Environment Agency (EA) has closed down a waste site after reports of illegal dumping in an Area…
Scholemoor Cemetery fly-tipping may contain asbestos
Bradford Council is investigating the large dump at Scholemoor Cemetery where household waste, furniture, rubble, and potentially hazardous…
Climate crisis-driven heat ‘sucking soils dry’ as extreme drought hits Europe | Drought
Extreme heat supercharged by the climate crisis is sucking Europe dry in summer and intensifying the drought hitting…
California deploys 400 goats and sheep as ‘firefighters’ to eat an invasive weed fuelling wildfires and threatening native ecosystems | World News
As California prepares for another intense wildfire season, an unlikely team of firefighters has taken to the fields…
Hosepipe ban across Republic of Ireland but NI avoids same precaution
Meanwhile NI Water said while it was not considering a hosepipe ban it encouraged everyone to “keep up…
Québec’s Bill 9 doesn’t just ban symbols — it bans obligations
As of Sept. 1, Muslim students at Québec’s post-secondary colleges, known as CEGEPs, will have no place to…
A UK village spent £35,000 building four beaver-style dams after homes flooded. It is now waiting for the next deluge during a hosepipe ban
Leaky dams, also known as logjams, allow water to flow through slowly instead of blocking it. (Representational AI…
Long-lost coral reefs rediscovered off the coast of Africa
Some 60 years ago scientists documented a coral reef off the coast of Benin in West Africa that…
Warm ocean water is melting a giant Antarctic glacier from below. Scientists want to stop it with an 80km underwater curtain |
Scientists are checking if an underwater curtain is what will keep an Antarctic glacier from slowly melting due…
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar: Environmental Impact assessment needed for proposed Barvas Moor Windfarm
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar has issued a scoping opinion concluding that the proposed Barvas Moor Windfarm “is likely…