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Where possible and within reason, adopt a more tolerant attitude to feral bee colonies in buildings, and of hived bee colonies in ones neighborhood. If we want bees, we need to make space for them.- Dr. David Heaf, The Bee-friendly...

If all goes well, California's newest state park will be open and accessible to visitors within a year. The 2,500-acre Dos Rios Ranch is at the confluence of the Tuolumne and San Joaquin rivers, about ten miles southwest...

We expect destruction to come from something obviously terrible, such as nuclear war or a giant asteroid plunging towards Earth. But a much gentler threat may be the death of the world’s largest living organism; Utah’s...

Spurred on by the western megadrought, the California Coastal Commission is expected to vote this week on a controversial $1.4 billion desalination plant near Huntington State Beach. Proponents say it could help the drinking...

Millions of California residents risk lacking water for essential use in the near future if they do not start rationing it now. Over six million residents of Southern California are called upon to cut their water usage, following...

Tim Shields has always been a reptile freak. And his favorite reptile is the tortoise. As a biologist, Shields spent 35 years tracking populations of desert tortoises in the Mojave Desert.[...]

Researchers at the University of Miami (UM) are working on technology to make seawalls more durable, resilient and ecologically beneficial. The new seawall designs emphasize habitat development for corals and mangroves.[...]

Few people we meet in these two marginal Liberal seats are negative about Labor leader Anthony Albanese – but he’s still a bit of a mystery

Few people we meet in these two marginal Liberal seats are negative about Labor leader Anthony Albanese – but he’s still a bit of a mystery

Today is World Water Day, which celebrates water and raises awareness of the 2.2 billion people who lack access to safe water. The ninth World Water Forum is in Dakar, Senegal and the theme is “Groundwater: making the invisible...

Research prompts warnings humanity is ‘financing its own extinction’ through subsidies damaging to the climate and wildlife

A recent study published in "Conservation Biology" says that only 15.5% of the world's coastal regions are still ecologically intact. Most coastal areas have been damaged by human activities such as mining, agriculture...

Billionaires, princes and prime ministers are among those keen to learn from the Central American country, which has long put nature at the heart of its policies

Project backed by Boris Johnson likely to get go-ahead but is on site that rare birds travel though, campaigners say

Humans are barreling toward a catastrophic tipping point for the Amazon rainforest, according to a recent study by more than 200 scientists. If we don’t change our habits immediately, the damage will be irreversible.[...]

Given the amount of industrialization occurring around the World, its very important that we preserve what 'wilds' we have left for future generations and to make sure we keep the natural species diversity high.