The 'fiddly and frustrating' work removing 10,000 coins from Giant's Causeway columns

Trump Administration Moves to Allow Logging in Pristine National Forests

A bear in the Tongass National Forest of southeast Alaska. Roadless areas make up about 30 percent of all national forest land and are home to more than half of imperiled wildlife, including grizzly bears, wolves, elk, salmon and wolverines.

Rebecca Hendin on Richard Tice and the climate crisis – cartoon

New Zealand introduced hedgehogs for pests; now they threaten native wildlife

What was once seen as a useful garden helper in New Zealand has become an unexpected threat to some of the country's most vulnerable wildlife. European hedgehogs were deliberately introduced to New Zealand in the 19th century, with acclimatisation societies releasing them in the hope that they would help control garden pests. In 1885, hedgehogs were liberated in Dunedin and Christchurch for this purpose, according to Te Ara, the Encyclopedia of New Zealand.

The pace of climate change matters more than overall heat in the race to save key Atlantic currents, study finds

The pace of climate change matters more than overall heat in the race to save key Atlantic currents, study finds The rate of global warming, rather than the extra heat itself, could determine whether a system of ocean currents known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation will cross a tipping point, new research suggests. Atlantic Ocean currents that regulate the global climate can adapt to rising temperatures, but the sheer pace of warming may cause the catastrophic collapse of...