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August 13, 2025

Labor to use black summer-era measure to fast

Murray Watt and Sussan Ley survey devastation in Adelaide as scientists call for urgent funding for affected species

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August 13, 2025

Natural England hails recovery of 150 struggling species

Chair Tony Juniper celebrates successes but says ‘collective endeavour’ needed to halt country’s decline in natureEngland needs a massive “collective...

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August 11, 2025

‘Death spiral’: Mekong River megafish have shrunk by half, study reveals

Fish once as large as grizzly bears have become far smaller in recent years due to overfishing, dams and climate crisisThe size of megafish in the...

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August 09, 2025

Human connection to nature has declined 60% in 200 years, study finds

Prof Miles Richardson says people risk ‘extinction of experience’ in the natural world without new policiesPeople’s

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August 06, 2025

Research into Australian skinks’ resistance to snake venom could streamline design of antivenoms

Changes to a critical muscle receptor confers immunity in a fashion similar to that of the mongoose, which is resistant to cobra venom

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August 05, 2025

Scientists identify bacterium behind devastating wasting disease in starfish

After 90% loss of global sunflower sea star population in 10 years, researchers hope decline can now be tackledA decade after the onset of a sea star...

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August 01, 2025

Rhino horns made radioactive to foil traffickers in South African project

Isotopes can be detected at airports and borders even in large containers and are harmless to the animalsA South African university has launched an...

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July 31, 2025

Supersized stick insect discovered in high-altitude trees in Australia

The 40cm-long insect, named Acrophylla alta, weighs slightly less than a golf ball and may be the heaviest insect in Australia

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July 30, 2025

Experts baffled as rarely seen beaked whales involved in series of strandings

Incidents across northern Europe on 26 and 27 July have left scientists trying to understand why so many of the deep-diving whales have appearedA...

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July 30, 2025

Scheme to release beavers into wild in England has stalled, say nature experts

Not a single licence granted since first beavers let loose in March, raising questions over application processWhen the first pair of beavers to be

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July 29, 2025

Minns government’s environmental integrity condemned as ‘nonexistent’ amid 40% surge in land clearing

Independent MP Jacqui Scruby says she saw ‘fresh koala scratchings on trees just metres from clear-felling’ in parts of proposed Great Koala national...

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