Will a new strategy help protect Northern Ireland’s nature?
Getty Images Louise Cullen Agriculture and environment correspondent, BBC News NI 27 October 2026 A new…
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There’s a hidden bias affecting what we know – and don’t know – about nature
Our knowledge about life on Earth is built through research on how organisms function, evolve and…
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Earth’s oldest evidence of life is written in stone – but it’s at risk of disappearing
Today, our planet is teeming with life, but it has not always looked the same. Long…
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Spawning coral release quintillions of eggs each year: new research
Most kinds of coral spawn once a year. In an enormous multi-day event synchronised to specific…
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View from The Hill: Pragmatism holds Albanese to bad GST carve up, but Productivity Commission remains burr under saddle
The commission is the high church of economic rationalism when it comes to reform. Its ancestor,…
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Butterflies are on the move as the planet warms: new research
The public narrative is often simplistic: as the world warms, species are shifting towards cooler temperatures…
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South Korea’s stray cats: As numbers grow, debate over culls gets louder
South Korea’s trap-neuter-release policy for stray cats has been in place for over 20 years, but…
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NZ’s complex problems require visionary solutions, not quick fixes. Here’s how we can govern for the future
Not every democracy approaches long-term policymaking this way. The prominence of formal cross-party agreements varies considerably,…
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NZ’s unique fossil record of marine molluscs helps scientists predict extinction risk – before it’s too late
Scientists are increasingly worried we may be witnessing the start of the “sixth mass extinction” –…
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Mangrove loss threatens livelihoods and wildlife on Bangladesh’s Sonadia Island
Mangrove forests on Bangladesh’s Sonadia Island are disappearing as land is cleared for shrimp farming and…
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Australia has already spent over $100 million dealing with Varroa mite. Here’s what we can do next
The honeybee mite, Varroa destructor, finally breached Australia’s biosecurity defences four years ago, and is here…
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Protests grow in Albania against Trump-Kushner-linked resort
For the sixth-straight day, thousands of protesters have rallied in the Albanian capital against a proposed…
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500-million-year-old fossil helps fill a strange gap in our record of life on Earth
Roughly 500 million years ago, a strange event in the evolution of life on Earth seems…
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Nature is good for business – and we now have numbers to show it
Yet it’s one rarely itemised on any balance sheet, because nature’s contribution to business remains genuinely…
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Lake mud reveals 7,000 years of Kangaroo Island’s complex fire history
During the summer of 2019–2020, half of Australia’s third largest island was on fire. Kangaroo Island,…
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Sheep are disappearing from our hills – and our dinner plates
For example the Westminster government’s Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme, which was updated last month, includes further…
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Yes, feral cats and foxes really have driven many Australian mammals to extinction
Where cats and foxes are abundant, there should be fewer native mammals. Lethal control is, unfortunately,…
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Deep sea mining is the next geopolitical frontline – and the Pacific is in the crosshairs
The process remains exploratory, but it shows how seabed plans can collide with livelihoods even before…
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Native pollinators need more support than honeybees in Australia – here’s why
Late last year, the New South Wales government announced an additional A$9.5 million in funding to…
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Australia’s national AI plan has just been released. Who exactly will benefit?
Today, the Albanese Labor government released the long-awaited National AI Plan, “a whole-of-government framework that ensures…
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Spiders inspired biologists to create artificial webs to capture airborne DNA for biodiversity monitoring
The global crisis of diminishing biological diversity is challenging our current ability to monitor changes in…
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Grattan on Friday: Libs should reflect on proverb ‘As a dog returns to its vomit, so fools repeat their folly’
Former treasury secretary Ken Henry earlier this year told the National Press Club: Watt is juggling…
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Fish ‘fingerprints’ in the ocean reveal which species are moving homes due to climate change
Species across the planet are on the move. Climate change has already caused more than 12,000…
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See Earth’s seasons in all their complexity in a new animated map
The annual clock of the seasons – winter, spring, summer, autumn – is often taken as…
