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Shark stolen from aquarium and taken away in a pram – video
Video footage shows a 40cm horn shark being taken from San Antonio aquarium in Texas, before being wrapped in a towel and placed in a pram. Police returned the shark to the aquarium after two of the three suspects confessed. A horn shark is worth about $2,000 (£1,520)
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Don't call it a wholphin: first sighting of rare whale-dolphin hybrid
Scientists have identified a creature that they believe to be a hybrid of a melon-headed whale and a rough-toothed dolphin
Scientists are touting the first sighting of a hybrid between a melon-headed whale and a rough-toothed dolphin in the ocean off Hawaii. But don’t call it a “wholphin,” they say.
The melon-headed whale is one of the various species that’s called a whale but is technically a dolphin.
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Allow nuclear waste disposal in national parks, say MPs
Safest site should be chosen regardless of location, committee says – but opponents call idea ‘outrageous’
Highly radioactive nuclear waste could be permanently buried under national parks and areas of outstanding natural beauty (AONBs), under government plans backed by a committee of MPs.
Deep geological burial is seen as the only permanent solution for nuclear waste that will remain radioactive for many thousands of years and is currently stored at surface sites across the UK. Ministers’ attempts to choose a site in Cumbria for the £12bn facility were foiled in 2013 when the county council rejected the proposal.
Continue reading...2017 UK's fifth warmest year on record, says Met Office
Average temperature in past decade is 0.8C hotter and ‘notably wetter’ than the 30 years leading up to 1990
Last year was the fifth warmest on record for the UK, showing a clear warming trend above the long-term average, despite a wet summer last year and cold winter.
The average temperature over the past decade, since 2008, was 0.8C above the 30 year average to 1990. Summers over that period have also been “notably wetter”, the Met Office said, in its fourth annual State of the UK Climate report on Tuesday.
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Country diary: wildflowers struggle in the heartless heat
Folly Farm, Somerset: Even sun-loving insects have been suffering as their food plants wither and nectar sources dry up
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Timor Leste a Mecca for whales but they face threats
One third of all cetacean species are found in the waters off Timor Leste, but measures are needed to protect them
Olive Andrews believes Timor Leste could be one of the best destinations in the world for whale watching. Andrews - a research scientist with a particular interest in cetaceans - drew this conclusion when she joined a survey team assessing the coastal waters north of Timor Leste in October 2016. “I’ve never seen such a biomass of cetaceans in such a small geography,” she says. “We encountered 2287 cetaceans from 11 species, including superpods of up to 600 individuals.”
There are 90 distinct species of cetacean - and at least 30 of them occur in Timor Leste. These include both local populations like melon headed whales and spinner dolphins, and migratory species like humpbacks and pygmy blue whales. Managed properly, whale tourism could generate significant income for Timor Leste, one of the world’s youngest - and poorest - nations.