by bpckle | Aug 8, 2026 | In the Media
Drought and record heat have forced the Norfolk and Suffolk league to move kick-off to the end of August as the ground is deemed too dangerous to play on
This summer’s record drought has forced a football league to delay the start of its season because “rock hard” pitches are a danger to its players.
The 2026/27 season in the Anglian Combination League of 85 amateur teams in Norfolk and Suffolk was due to start next weekend.
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by bpckle | Aug 8, 2026 | In the Media
South Australia has quickly become the country’s hotspot for H5N1 bird flu and while the bulk of the cases are from coastal birds, what does a spread look like if it continues inland and crosses into other species?
by bpckle | Aug 8, 2026 | In the Media
There are very few places on Earth that remain untouched and unseen by humans. For true explorers, the final frontier is not a distant speck in the sky, it is the underground realm beneath our feet.
by bpckle | Aug 7, 2026 | In the Media
More air-conditioned spaces are open during extreme heat, but distance, stigma and risk perception keep many away
Responding to an uptick in extreme heat waves this summer, US cities have increased their efforts to establish cooling centers to keep people safe but continue to encounter a problem: actually getting people to enter the public air-conditioned spaces.
Lower-income people, who often do not have – or cannot afford to operate – air conditioning, face a greater risk of heat-related illness or deaths, which means public agencies in the US concentrate their efforts on trying to reach them.
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by bpckle | Aug 7, 2026 | In the Media
Also known as the tree lobster, this ultra-rare creature was inadvertently driven to the brink by European settlers
When small species are left alone to evolve for centuries on small islands, they often become larger. Quietly, over thousands of years, Dryococelus australis grew to a great size on Lord Howe Island, in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand.
But the peaceful life of the Lord Howe Island stick insect, an invertebrate of such gargantuan proportions that it is also fondly known as the tree lobster, was destroyed by European settlers. In 1918, a shipwreck brought black rats to the island. The flightless insects were once so common they were used by settlers as bait for fishing, but the rats wiped out the entire population on the island in just two years.
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