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King Charles III to unveil 'harmony' vision of nature in new film
Oct 08, 2025 (AFP)
"Nature is our sustainer -- we are a part of nature. Therefore, what we do to her, we do to ourselves," he said in a statement. "For much of my life I have soug...
New species of poisonous frog discovered in Amazon; Snakebite surge as Bangladesh hit by floods
Oct 07, 2025 (AFP)
The new species, named Ranitomeya hwata, is only "15 mm long", the National Service of Protected Natural Areas by the State (Sernanp) said in a statement on Mon...
Leopard captured after wandering into Indonesian hotel
Oct 06, 2025 (AFP)
The big cat was spotted on Monday morning outside a guest room on the second floor of a hotel in Bandung, the capital of West Java, Indonesia's most populous pr...
Wolf attack in Greece prompts calls for hunting rights
Sep 30, 2025 (AFP)
The animal "grabbed" the five-year-old girl by the waist as she played on a beach in the Halkidiki peninsula, northern Greece, her mother told Skai TV. A bystan...
China's 'Great Green Wall' brings hope but also hardship
Sep 29, 2025 (AFP)
Europe must step up efforts to protect environment: report
Sep 29, 2025 (AFP)
While "significant progress" has been made to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, the general state of Europe's environment was "not good", the E...
Tails of the city: Paris rats find unlikely political ally
Sep 29, 2025 (AFP)
Unlike most rats, this one has a name, Plume, and gets to enjoy the rare privilege of wandering around Paris on the shoulder of its owner, a local politician. G...
Framework proposed to study planetary scale impact of life
Sep 25, 2025 (SPX)
"We can now see previously hidden mechanisms that would allow iron-based molecules to transfer charge more efficiently to acceptor molecules. This could effecti...
French zoo returns ill panda and partner to China
Sep 22, 2025 (AFP)
Huan Huan and her partner Yuan Zi arrived at the Beauval Zoo in 2012 as part of China's "panda diplomacy" programme, which sees the black-and-white bears dispat...
How did an Indian zoo get the world's most endangered great ape?
Sep 19, 2025 (AFP)
An Indian court cleared the 3,500-acre wildlife facility known as Vantara on Monday of allegations including unlawful acquisition of animals and financial wrong...
Australian scientists grapple with 'despicable' butterfly heist
Sep 18, 2025 (AFP)
Between 1946 and 1947, the British ski champion and acclaimed painter charmed his way into museums in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide and pilfered 3,000 of the i...
How mowing less lets flowers bloom along Austria's 'Green Belt'
Sep 13, 2025 (AFP)
"Yesterday, a buzzard followed me at a distance of only five metres," the cattle farmer told AFP in the municipality of Sankt Anna am Aigen in the Styria provin...
Baby gorilla to return to Nigeria after Istanbul airport rescue
Sep 12, 2025 (AFP)
He was five months old when he was discovered, days before Christmas, crammed into a wooden crate in the cargo section of a Turkish Airlines plane en route from...
Australian authorities investigate influencer over croc wrestling
Sep 11, 2025 (AFP)
In a series of videos on his Instagram, bare-chested Mike Holston, who goes by therealtarzann online, tussles with saltwater and freshwater crocodiles. In one p...
Australia approves chlamydia vaccine for koalas
Sep 10, 2025 (AFP)
For a decade, scientists at the University of the Sunshine Coast trialled the chlamydia vaccine in controlled settings. But approval from the veterinary medicin...
Global genome moonshot targets 150000 species in four years
Sep 07, 2025 (SPX)
REBP now unites more than 2,200 scientists across 88 countries, with growing participation from local and Indigenous research communities in the Global South. T...
'Roasted alive': Greek wildlife suffers as climate changes
Sep 03, 2025 (AFP)
Most of the scorched scales on its back had to be removed with forceps. "It was really depressed and had its mouth open trying to breathe because of the smoke" ...
Japan loosens gun rules as bear attacks rise
Sep 01, 2025 (AFP)
More and more wild bears have been spotted in residential areas in Japan due to factors including a declining human population and climate change. Since April t...
Bison herds 'reawaken' Yellowstone's prairies
Aug 28, 2025 (AFP)
A new study published Thursday in Science finds that bringing North America's largest land mammals back to their ancient stomping grounds is breathing new life ...
Study shows spiders using fireflies as bait to draw prey
Aug 28, 2025 (UPI)
Tunghai University researchers observed Psechrus Clavis a sheet web spider capturing fireflies using their bioluminescent light to catch prey. The spiders also ...
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