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China Cleaning up Beijing's Act for Olympics

The Chinese government have announced funding for a large-scale wind farm on the outskirts of Beijing in an effort to cut pollution in time for the 2008 Olympics. The 580 mil...

Bad News for British Seabirds.

That’s according to the RSPB who have announced this week that colonies of seabirds, like puffins, kittiwakes and Manx shearwaters are not doing very well at all in their normal br...

Bacteria on hunger strike

A paper in Nature this week contains worrying news for waterways. Bacterial communities living in estuaries usually protect the sea from pollution by remo...

Skincare by jellyfish

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Greatest-"tits" - Birds stay ahead of fashion with cutting edge songs

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Turtle conservation could be working

Numbers of endangered sea turtles are on the up in British and French waters, thanks to conservation efforts on the other side of the Atlantic. That’s acco...

Protein for plant “petrol”

As it looks like we’ll be running out of oil in the not-too-distant future, scientists have been hunting for an alternative to fossil fuels for use in cars and other vehicles. ...

Looking at Lemmings

It’s a common belief that lemmings commit suicide by flinging themselves off cliffs en masse.  However, this isn’t actually true. Like most of us, lemmings are quite keen to s...

Heat Triggers Sex Change in Lizards by Turning Off Genes

A new study out this week has shown for the first time that heat causes lizard eggs to change sex by switching off a key gene....

Pollution, Mountains and Rainfall

Pollution seems to be affecting rainfall in mountainous areas, there have been many reports of this over the last few years but now there is some hard evidence for this effect. ...