Nearly abandoned lab in Tanzanian mountains is 70s time capsule
24 May 2017
The Amani Hill Research Station is a remnant of the colonial past and has remained largely unchanged for decades, left with the instruments of a lost era
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Three amazing nature areas shortlisted for World Heritage status
23 May 2017
Newly proposed world heritage sites in Argentina, China and West Africa could safeguard threatened and endemic species such as elephants and snow leopards
EU nations set to wipe out forests and not account for emissions
22 May 2017
The drive for biofuels that international treaties wrongly consider to be emissions-free is driving plans to boost tree harvests in Europe, forgetting about associated emissions
Our common ancestor with chimps may be from Europe, not Africa
22 May 2017
The last common ancestor of chimps and humans was an eastern European, claims team that analysed fossils of a 7-million-year-old ape from Bulgaria and Greece
Rising seas could double the number of severe coastal floods
18 May 2017
An increase in sea level of between just 5 and 10 centimetres could make devastating weather events come every 25 years rather than every 50 years
Narwhals could help us measure melting glaciers underwater
18 May 2017
A project off Greenland will tag whales with sensors to measure sea temperatures and ice melt in hard-to-reach places, improving predictions of sea-level rise
Mass landfills are saving endangered vultures from extinction
18 May 2017
Endangered Egyptian vultures thrive near open garbage sites, which have helped some bounce back – but EU regulations threaten to shut the sites down
Beaver dams keeps streams cool and protect sensitive fish
17 May 2017
We used to think that beaver dams warmed up stream waters as felling trees to build them reduces shade. Now it seems the opposite might be true
Hopping miniature parrots suggest how birds first got airborne
17 May 2017
Parrotlets save energy when foraging by jumping from perch to perch with a few wingbeats, a technique that might have predated true flight
