Senegal’s pink lake is on the verge of disappearing – how to protect it: Lake Retba, better known as Lac Rose (the Pink Lake), is located around 35km from the city of Dakar, Senegal. It sits in a depression with a shoreline 6.5 metres below sea level. The lake is isolated from the sea by …
Mussels are disappearing from the Thames and growing smaller – and it’s partly because the river is cleaner: The population of River Thames freshwater mussels has declined by almost 95% since 1964. BadPixma/Shutterstock Freshwater ecosystems, including rivers, are home to 10% of all known animal species. Yet at the same time, they are losing their …
Gaelic psalm singing: why the ancient tradition is in danger of disappearing: The Hebridean island of Scalpay, near Harris, where around 80% of locals are Gaelic speakers. John Peter Photography / Alamy There’s just something about Gaelic psalm singing that moves me. It doesn’t matter where I am. If I hear it, it just brings …
Botanists are disappearing – just when the world needs them most: Annika Geijer-Simpson, Author provided Can you recall any of the plants you saw today? Probably not. As a species, we are not programmed to recognise and register everything we see within our field of vision. This would be an overwhelming amount of information for …
Mangroves are disappearing – we read 200 scientific papers to find out why: Remains of deforested mangroves in Malaysia. NOOR RADYA BINTI MD RADZI / shutterstock Mangrove forests look much like the coastal cousins of inland forests, but you cannot miss their tangled prop roots that help them thrive in harsh coastal environments where the …
Russia’s disappearing independent media: why they closed: Nobel Peace Prize winner Dmitry Muratov has announced his news operation in Russia is closing. Gregory Stein/Shutterstock Novaya Gazeta was the only major Russian independent news outlet that continued reporting a whole month into the war with Ukraine. On March 28, Novaya Gazeta, led by the Nobel Peace …
Disappearing glaciers are threatening rare alpine plants with extinction: Creeping avens – a plant native to mountains in Central Asia and Europe. Losapio/Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution High up on a mountain where winds are too fierce, temperatures too extreme and soils too poor for trees, some of the most unusual plants on Earth grow. …
Allotments have been disappearing from cities – here’s why they are ripe for a comeback: MintImages/Shutterstock More than half of the growing global population now live in cities and towns, and in the UK and many other countries in the global north that figure exceeds 80%. As a consequence, most people are now physically distant …
Revealed: legal advice for asylum seekers disappearing due to legal aid cuts: A woman at Yarl's Wood detention centre in 2015. via shutterstock.com Ever since changes were introduced in 2013 to the way legal aid works in England and Wales, campaigners, judges and politicians have been telling the government that many people are now unable …
Dog found after disappearing in Vegas shooting: A California man has reunited with his dog after losing her in the chaos of Sunday's shooting in Las Vegas, KSNV reported. Ryan Needham said he refused to go home without Rou, KSNV reported . : Weird News Have you tried: Visiting Port Elizabeth?
Using new techniques to track Kenya’s disappearing amphibians: The Painted Reed Frog (Hyperolius marmoratus) in Kenya. Shutterstock Amphibians are cold-blooded vertebrates that live part of their life on land, part of it in water – a popular example are frogs. What isn’t widely known is that around the world they are going extinct at rates …