An alligator stolen from a New Braunfels, Texas zoo was returned to the facility 20 years after she was taken as an egg. Texas Parks and Wildlife shared the story on Instagram on March 3. The woman who took "Tewa" was a volunteer when she took the gator egg and kept her as a pet.
‘We’re not forcing anyone to remove gas boiler’, says energy secretary Grant Shapps
Thousands more dead and dying shellfish have been washed up on a beach on a stretch of coast where there has previously been a mass crustacean die-off. Source: PA
Households are to be penalised if they do not switch away from gas under net zero plans to be unveiled on Thursday.
We could see more stunning auroras, such as the famous Northern Lights, due to heightened solar activity
The phrase about a mother’s work never being done is epitomized in footage shared to Instagram on March 28 from South Lake Tahoe, California, showing a black bear “mom” gathering insulation for her den, as her “cubs complain” in the background.The footage, captured by nature enthusiast Toogee Sielsch, is timestamped as being taken on March 27 and shows the bear paw at shrubbery while faint calls from the background can be heard.“Mom knows a cold, snowy, and windy storm is about to move through and does her best to gather some more bedding/insulation for her seven-to-eight-week-old cubs,” commented Sielsch on his Instagram post.“Turn up the sound and hear the cubs complain while mom is working hard to keep them protected,” he adds. A “dynamic winter storm” was forecast in the region on the evening of March 27.Sielsch has been documenting the life of the bear and her cubs over a number of recent Instagram posts, and regularly shares footage of South Lake Tahoe’s bear population. Credit: Toogee Sielsch via Storyful
Emmanuel Macron has pledged to tax water usage in France to tackle a major drought, with the move coming amid a public uprising over pension reforms and the cost of living.
The Met Office has warned of possible travel disruption as the French-named storm arrives on UK shores
A MAN has been fined after disposing his business waste at a beauty near Hereford.
The late Kim Jong Il once claimed to have personally achieved cold fusion, as long as two decades ago, so it is a mystery why the world’s energy problems have still not gone away
But critics described Mr Shapps’s announcement as ‘weak and feeble’
A new net zero plan is upon us. The government has just published Powering Up Britain, 1000 pages of policy tweaks and clearer outlines to show, with improved precision, how the UK will meet its climate change targets. There will be increased investment in renewables and nuclear, with the aim of generating the cheapest electricity in Europe by 2035, and new carbon capture sites built to store CO2 under the North Sea. There will also be an insulation fund for 300,000 of the country's most poorly
It’s a plant that is nearly impossible to obliterate, but new research reveals the best way of tackling Japanese knotweed in the most sustainable way.
The whale had learned to swim with just its pectoral fins. It likely lost its tail when it was snagged in commercial fishing gear, Fox 11 LA reported.
Shocking images show piles of rubbish scattered across a Glasgow park.
A warning has been issued to dogwalkers and parents of small children to be on the lookout for venomous adders in Norfolk this spring.
A nest of 10 swan eggs has been damaged by a group of teenagers in King's Lynn.
Government’s reluctance to require panels to be fitted on new homes in England from 2025 remains a puzzle
Major omissions and a last-minute refocus on energy security rather than net zero suggest a prime minister buffeted by internal factions
A fidgety polar bear cub was seen attempting to nestle atop its mother at a park near Churchill, Manitoba, video uploaded on March 17 shows.Footage recorded by Canadian tour guide Drew Hamilton at Wapusk National Park shows the small cub constantly shifting in an attempt to find the perfect resting position along the back of its sleepy mother.Hamilton, who’s shared various photos of polar bears around the area to his Instagram, told Storyful that “in late February and early March, polar bear mothers from the Western Hudson Bay population of polar bears emerge from their dens before heading out to the sea ice.”“This mother with her single cub tries to grab some sleep before beginning her 40 km trek to Hudson Bay,” Hamilton said. “It is a dangerous journey as she can only travel as fast as the little legs of the cub can go.”Polar Bears International, a nonprofit dedicated to wild polar bear conservation, recently posted a report documenting a steep loss of Western Hudson Bay polar bears, saying that “the estimated population in this region declined by … 27 percent between 2016 and 2021.” Credit: Drew Hamilton via Storyful
THE MET Office has issued a flood alert for East Somerset rivers, and has adviced to be prepared for the following.
Yahoo News 