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Cranes are flourishing with more than 200 now living in Britain – the highest number in 400 years, RSPB reveals Cranes went extinct in Britain due to habitat loss during the early 17th century Conservationists have been steadily reintroducing the 4ft tall bird in Britain RSPB says there are more than 200 cranes now living … Read more
WHO warns coronavirus ‘will be with us for a long time’ and says most of the world’s population remains at risk from catching the disease Director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said ‘we have a long way to go’ He said most countries are still in the early stages of their epidemics WHO said there were ‘worrying … Read more
Jersey has secured a deal to buy 500,000 coronavirus antibody tests – enough to test its population five times for signs of past infection. Residents of the tiny Channel Island, which has had 255 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 14 deaths, could soon find out if they have already had the virus, and therefore have some form … Read more
Bats carrying viruses that can lead to an AIDS-like disease threaten to wipe out Australia’s koala population Bats are acting as flying carriers for several viruses that are deadly to koalas The virus can trigger the koala retrovirus called KoRV, which can lead to cancer Scientists believe this is a greater threat to the koala … Read more
Professor Anthony Costello says Britain faces up to 10 waves of the coronavirus before the population develops herd immunity Britain faces up to 10 waves of the coronavirus before the population develops herd immunity, a leading expert has warned. Professor Anthony Costello blasted the Government’s handling of the crisis, saying it is ‘a total mess’ and … Read more
Iceland has tested one-tenth of its population for coronavirus at random and found that half of people have the disease without realising. They also discovered that 1600 people have been infected with Covid-19 since the start of the outbreak. Of these cases, there were only seven deaths, indicating a fatality rate of just 0.004 per cent, … Read more
A surging bison population in Yellowstone National Park is doing serious and steady damage to the park’s biological diversity. A team of researchers from Oregon State University, Corvallis studied the animal’s effects on the park’s landscape, focusing primarily on the Lamar Valley, an area on the park’s eastern edge. The team analyzed data spanning more … Read more
A wet winter has seen Britain’s otter population flourish and they are raiding people’s gardens and eating their fish Otters were a common sight across the United Kingdom back in the 1950s However, their numbers dwindled around 1970–80 due to pesticide usage Now these chemicals are banned and otters are protected, numbers are rising Winter rainfall … Read more
Three billion people – more than a third of the world’s 2.6billion population – are now thought to be under some kind of coronavirus lockdown in an attempt to control the spread of the disease. Cases of the highly-infectious virus have now been reported on every continent except Antarctica and in virtually every country as … Read more
Coronavirus could have infected HALF of the British population and been spreading here since January say Oxford University experts as they challenge ‘unquestioning acceptance’ of official data Half of the UK could be infected with coronavirus, say Oxford experts Public in Kent, Cambridge and Oxford could be tested to support new theory Disease may have … Read more