Every day Katy Brill looks to the skies above her farm café in the Chiltern Hills and scans for the winged menace terrorising her customers. In recent months visitors to Peterley Manor Farm, near Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire, have lost sandwiches, crisps and slices of cake to the daring raids of a raptor that has…
The Environmental Agency said it had received reports of “illegal activity” and “alleged fires” at a site off Habberley Road near Bewdley Pines Golf Club. The agency confirmed it has launched an investigation to understand how the activity is affecting the community. A spokesperson for the Environment Agency said: “We responded quickly and directly to…
The report sets out a comprehensive overview of the district’s natural environment, highlighting the progress being made in supporting wildlife and nature recovery. It outlines how the council is actively prioritising biodiversity through its policies, partnerships, and land management. Councillor Mike Giles, cabinet member for climate action and nature recovery, said: “The council included nature…
Bumblebee queens can survive underwater for at least a week, according to new research. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT This remarkable feat occurs over winter, when the insects are buried underground and have entered a hibernation-like state known as diapause. During this six to nine-month period, the queens are vulnerable to waterlogged conditions as rain and melting snow…
Vale of White Horse District Council has published its first biodiversity report, which features the largest surviving alkaline fen in central England at Cothill and a growing population of water voles along the River Ock. The report outlines the council’s work to protect and enhance nature across the district. Dr Robert Clegg, cabinet member for…
Investors have turned on cruise line stocks in recent weeks. Fuel costs are a major input for these companies, and a fuel price spike has almost certainly squeezed the margins for the cruise lines. Nonetheless, despite uncertainty in the economy, bookings have been at record levels, indicating that they will not have trouble filling cabins…
In the second week of March, the nature vlogger Ilie Cojocari went out to film the arrival of spring on the Nistru (Dniester) river, 70 metres away from his home in Naslavcea, a village bordering Ukraine on the northernmost point of Moldova. But as he approached the river he could smell the stench of oil…
“My ask of humans is quite large,” says the northern bat to a room of reindeer, wolf lichen, bog, and other beings. “It’s a shift of consciousness, and an understanding that … we are a relation.” The scene could come from a sci-fi novel imagining a more-than-human uprising. In fact, it’s from a recent “interspecies…
Rinku Majumder, PhD, is a professor at Louisiana State University Health Science Center, New Orleans, who leads a hematology laboratory conducting research on the anticoagulant protein S. Her team’s work has therapeutic implications for hemophilia, hypercoagulability, and thrombosis, as well as pancreatic cancer. Heme Today previously interviewed Dr. Majumder as a recipient of the American…
The forest is very detailed and immersive, making you feel like you are exploring an ancient place, lost in nature. Some of the objects and parts of the structure have engravings and runes, and even though the artist only shared images of nature, in the video, you can see a shift into a fantasy scene…
