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France’s Macron pledges to replant Fontainebleau forest after devastating fire
7+ hour, 36+ min ago (192+ words) PARIS, July 16 (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron pledged to replant the historic Fontainebleau forest south of Paris on Thursday after wildfires scorched at least 10% of the 20,000-hectare domain and forced 1,000 residents to flee. • The fire is now contained but Macron…...
Australia welcomes draft UNESCO decision to keep Great Barrier Reef off danger list
1+ week, 5+ day ago (289+ words) SYDNEY, July 4 (Reuters) – Australia welcomed a draft UNESCO decision not to list the Great Barrier Reef as an endangered site, its assistant tourism minister said on Saturday, despite ongoing struggles of the world’s biggest coral reef ecosystem with coral bleaching....
Deep-sea denizens go years without food with clever biological fix
3+ week, 5+ day ago (712+ words) June 19 (Reuters) – A pill bug dwelling under a garden pot curls its body into a tiny armored ball as self-defense. Far below the ocean surface, some of its much larger relatives face a harder problem: how to stay alive when…...
Deadly Indonesia floods wiped out at least 7% of rare orangutan population, report says
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (392+ words) JAKARTA, June 10 (Reuters) – Deadly floods and landslides in Indonesia’s Sumatra last year have wiped out at least 7% of the total population of the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan, a new report released on Wednesday showed. The cyclone-induced floods and landslides killed…...
Ancient bird’s long tail feathers were perfect for a mating dance
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (535+ words) May 27 (Reuters) – New Guinea’s tropical rainforests are home to one of the animal kingdom’s most spectacular courtship rituals, with male birds of paradise prancing about and showing off their plumage, hoping to attract a female. But, as a new fossil…...
Thousands of small fish defy gravity to climb Congo waterfall
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (516+ words) April 7 (Reuters) – A species of small fish has been observed by the thousands climbing a vertical waterfall 15 metres (50 feet) tall in the Democratic Republic of Congo in a behaviour that illustrates the surprising and ingenious ways animals can adapt to…...
Kazakhstan releases endangered saker falcons in Saudi-backed restoration drive
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (262+ words) ALTYN-EMEL NATIONAL PARK, Kazakhstan, April 3 (Reuters) – With a loud thwack of their wings, the falcons took flight, quickly soaring high above the rocky desert landscape of Altyn-Emel National Park in southeastern Kazakhstan. The 34 birds were on an important mission: to…...
Coldwater City Council to consider efforts to manage geese population
6+ mon, 4+ day ago (132+ words) WTVB Coldwater City Council to consider efforts to manage geese population COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – The Coldwater City Council is scheduled to meet this evening, and will consider a resolution that would support the North Chain of Lakes Association’s efforts to…...