From Brazil to the WA outback, how two remote communities found strength after natural disasters
Two different communities living 15,000 kilometres apart have found a way to heal together after experiencing severe natural disasters.
One of Australia’s most elusive birds, a 2,200km journey and a mid-winter mystery solved
A new project that aims to uncover where the Australian painted-snipe goes during winter has revealed why, until now, no one knew
It had been three months without a peep, and the ecologist Matt Herring thought Gloria had perished. He had captured the elusive bird on 22 October 2023, on a property north of Balranald in New South Wales – the first Australian painted-snipe to be fitted with a satellite tracker.
But contact had been lost, and there was a sticky complication: Gloria’s tracker had been financed by a successful crowdfunding campaign. Herring started preparing an obituary for the avian pioneer for her species.
Death Valley records its hottest month ever in July
The national park had an average 24-hour temperature of 108.5F that month, beating its previous record in 2018
Death Valley, the hottest place on Earth, recorded its hottest month ever on record in July, the National Park Service (NPS) announced.
In a statement released on Friday, the NPS revealed that the park had an average 24-hour temperature of 108.5F (42.5C), in turn beating out its previous record of 108.1F (42.3C) set in 2018.
Ecologist taking on MoD to protect skylarks says he has faced threats and assault
Campaigners say rare grassland on former firing range in Essex was mowed, killing the birds and their chicks that nest on the ground
The song of the skylark has filled poets’ hearts for centuries, from Shelley’s “blithe spirit” to Wordsworth’s “ethereal minstrel”. But there is little that is poetic about a row over the birds that has blown up in Colchester.
Campaigners seeking to save Middlewick Ranges, a former Ministry of Defence firing range in Essex, are furious that some of the 76 hectares of rare grassland were mowed last month, an act that they believe has killed skylarks and their chicks, which nest on the ground.
Everyone thought this tiny lizard was extinct — then it turned up on Melbourne’s fringe
Emi Arnold and Pat Monarca were about to finish work when they spotted a long-lost tiny dragon. Now Zoos Victoria is leading the charge to bring the reptiles back from the brink.