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'Very rare' cattle breed reintroduced to city - AOL
1+ hour, 35+ min ago (442+ words) Cattle have returned to Hereford for the first time in eight years and their reintroduction has continued the city's historical link with livestock. Bartonsham Meadows, lying within a meander of the River Wye, would have been grazed by livestock for…...
This gorgeous picture of a polar bear bounding across the ice offers a masterclass in deciding whether to shoot in color or black and white
18+ min ago (414+ words) A polar bear is caught mid-leap between ice floes, its legs still tucked beneath it, doubled perfectly in the still water below. The whole frame reads as a single graphic shape before it registers as an animal at all. It's…...
A rust-colored pack hunter absent for decades had vanished from a landscape watched by 83 camera traps in northeastern India, and the six photographs taken on one October night changed that assumption entirely
3+ hour, 48+ min ago (650+ words) Something crossed a trail camera in the forests of northeastern India on the last day of October 2022. It triggered the sensor six times in a single pass. The researchers reviewing the images went very still. The Kaziranga-Karbi Anglong Landscape in…...
Okefenokee Swamp earns World Heritage status, joining world's natural wonders
5+ hour, 20+ min ago (815+ words) (Georgia Recorder) — The Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge is now a World Heritage Site. “The Okefenokee is a place where nature still reigns,” Kim Bednarek, executive director of Okefenokee Swamp Park and Adventures, said in an acceptance speech. “Across more than…...
Why these Sydney neighbours built a backyard wildlife corridor
34+ min ago (978+ words) Neighbours in Sydney's north-west fringe have banded together to create a 40-hectare wildlife corridor using their land that neighbours national parks. Locals say they did it in response to the development of Sydney's urban fringe and a love of nature....
Fish Skin Doesn't Just Reflect Light – It Might Actually Sense It
35+ min ago (573+ words) A glittering school of silverside fish may remind you of a disco ball, a dazzling display made up of many tiny mirrors. But emerging research suggests the skin of these fish is capable of far more than just reflecting light....
Fresh Start helps trainee plan for future in environmental management
2+ hour, 25+ min ago (311+ words) ROUS County Council trainee Cassius Holten-Roberts has spent the past 12 months building his future career in environmental management through an On Country Management Traineeship. His efforts saw him join a statewide network supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander trainees, apprentices…...
Solar panels are promised to pay back their cost in 6 to 10 years, but over 138 species of bird are discovering a signal hidden inside the glass that nobody planned for
6+ hour, 48+ min ago (772+ words) Every spring, tens of millions of migratory birds lift off from America’s wetlands and start reading the land below like a map. They have done it for millions of years. Water is their compass point, their rest stop, their lifeline…...
Lynx life near the Haul Road
2+ hour, 37+ min ago (425+ words) Located 60 miles above the Arctic Circle, Coldfoot is a busy truck stop on Alaska’s Dalton Highway. Step off the gravel pad, which underlies a year-round population of 34, and you’ll head into several hundred miles of dense boreal forest and the…...