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Stranded driver rescued by helicopter during California floodsCoastal Division Air Operations
Stranded driver rescued by helicopter during California floodsCoastal Division Air Operations
It was seen swimming around a harbour during high tide this week.
A super tanker anchored off the coast of Yemen and containing more than a million barrels of oil is "likely to sink or explode at any moment", unleashing an environmental and humanitarian disaster, a United Nations official has told Sky News. The FSO Safer was all but abandoned in 2015 as Yemen descended into civil war and now the ship is starting to fall apart.
Fishermen will be able to net £101 million more in catches this year than would have been possible if Britain were still an EU member.
No sign of temperatures going up anytime soon as spring nears
A group of trees set for the chop after a resident complained it was blocking light to her garden has been spared – after the Scottish Government ruled it could not be considered a ‘high hedge’.
Over 1.4 million affected by Cyclone Freddy that could be declared the longest ever in recorded history
BRADFORD Council is seeking “urgent discussions” with The Canal and Rivers Trust after the charity revealed that it plans to remove most of the bins from towpaths of canals across Yorkshire and the Northeast.
Villagers are desperate to stop hundreds of lorries “thundering” past their houses every month.
STORY: Firefighters using 18 planes and helicopters worked throughout the night and on Friday to tackle the blaze near the village of Villanueva de Viver, in the Valencia region.Emergency services evacuated eight communities, the regional head of interior affairs, Gabriela Bravo, said.Some of the evacuees were afraid the flames could reach their homes, but authorities said the blaze did not reach the villages so far.An unusually dry winter across parts of the south of the European continent has reduced moisture in the soil and raised fears of a repeat of 2022, when 785,000 hectares were destroyed in Europe - more than double the annual average for the past 16 years, according to European Commission (EC) statistics.
A local farmer who came across sheep carcasses close to a scenic viewpoint has called on the authorities to do their job and lift the dead animals which have been lying at the side of a road for almost two weeks.
Brookfield Zoo’s latest addition, a silverback gorilla named Jontu, is ready to meet the public following his move from Saint Louis Zoo in February.Jontu, a 26-year-old western lowland gorilla, has been acclimatizing to his new home since his arrival in early February, according to the zoo.Over the past few weeks, Jontu was given access to his habitat while the section was closed to guests, allowing him to meet the other members of the gorilla group: Binti, 35; Koola, 28; Kamba,18; Nora, 9; and Ali, 4.According to staff at Brookfield Zoo, the nearly 500-pound ape has been enlisted to maintain harmony within the group, as silverbacks are known to do.“Guests may notice Jontu, sitting away from the others a lot of the time, but he is very attentive and aware of where other members of the troop are and monitors them, always looking out for their best interest,” said Tim Sullivan, interim director of primate care.Western lowland gorillas are listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, with an estimated 300,000 western lowland gorillas found throughout Western Equatorial Africa. Credit: Lynette Kleisner/CZS-Brookfield Zoo via Storyful
Scottish wildcats bred in captivity are to be released into the wild for the first time in a bid to save the critically endangered species, it has been announced.
More flood alerts have been issued after earlier warnings that coastal properties were at risk from water damage.
Langstone, Hampshire: The pond is almost devoid of life, apart from several of these greenish-grey segmented worms burrowed into the silt at the bottom
Water action needs to be at the "centre of the global political agenda," UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Friday at the end of a three-day conference on water resources.
Opposing wind turbines in your area if you are in favour of them being built elsewhere is not an “acceptable moral position”, according to the government’s climate change adviser.
Exclusive: Labour decries ‘climate vandalism’ as Aberdeen launch signals intention to boost fossil fuel industry
Tom Massey promotes natural ‘forest gardens’ with biodiverse planting to create wildlife havens
A resolution enlisting the UN's top court in tackling climate change, spearheaded by Vanuatu, would be a "historic" step if adopted, its climate minister said Thursday, as he laid out the existential threat facing his Pacific island nation.One of them was Cynthia Houniuhi, who is now part of the Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change group.
Ecologists say some bodies of water may already have passed the tipping points from which they may never recover