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‘You’d want one as a pet’: the irresistibly cute solar-powered sea slug

silverguide.site – The beady-eyed, Pokémon-like leaf sheep is far more ingenious than us land mammals…
‘You’d want one as a pet’: the irresistibly cute solar-powered sea slug

Butterflies around the world are changing habitats – and experts say it’s ‘signalling a warning’

silverguide.site – New research shows early-warning species is on the move, expanding or contracting geographic range and changing altitude …
Butterflies around the world are changing habitats – and experts say it’s ‘signalling a warning’

The ‘Cockroach Lord’ who names new species after Tolkien and Pokémon characters

silverguide.site – Cristian Lucañas has discovered multiple species of cockroach in the Philippines, and believes there’s far more to the much-maligned insect than meets the eye…
The ‘Cockroach Lord’ who names new species after Tolkien and Pokémon characters

El Niño could push 50m people into acute hunger before end of next year

silverguide.site – UN forecasters warn of worsening conditions in 45 countries currently experiencing severe food insecurity…
El Niño could push 50m people into acute hunger before end of next year

Specieswatch: Wild deer release millions of tonnes of methane a year

silverguide.site – Scientists find ruminants emit more of greenhouse gas individually than cows, although total contribution tiny compared with domesticated livestock…
Specieswatch: Wild deer release millions of tonnes of methane a year

Country diary: A beetle with a prehensile anus? Thanks to local wildlife recorders, I know one lives here | Gwyneth Lewis

silverguide.site – Troedyraur, Ceredigion: Let’s sing the praises of this network of volunteers who move slowly and look hard, gathering vital wildlife data – and finding fantastic species…
Country diary: A beetle with a prehensile anus? Thanks to local wildlife recorders, I know one lives here | Gwyneth Lewis

‘Nobody cares’: the Turkish farmers bearing the burden of UK’s plastic waste problem

silverguide.site – Britain exported 139,000 tonnes of rubbish to Turkey last year, leaving smallholders and poor districts of Adana to cope with the debris, microplastics and toxic smoke …
‘Nobody cares’: the Turkish farmers bearing the burden of UK’s plastic waste problem

UK plastic ‘waste colonialism’ found to be polluting Turkey’s farming heartland

silverguide.site – A Guardian investigation finds irrigation canals polluted with microplastics in Turkey, a major destination for UK waste…
UK plastic ‘waste colonialism’ found to be polluting Turkey’s farming heartland

Are you part of a community environmental action group? We’d like to hear about your experience

silverguide.site – We want to hear from people around the world who have been getting involved in local action on the climate…
Are you part of a community environmental action group? We’d like to hear about your experience

Country diary: Martha, a tribute to Buxton’s miners, has been knocked off her plinth. Why? | Mark Cocker

silverguide.site – Buxton, Derbyshire: Acts of vandalism are not unusual. Have we normalised the destruction of ‘common ground’?…
Country diary: Martha, a tribute to Buxton’s miners, has been knocked off her plinth. Why? | Mark Cocker

Scottish seabird hunt cancelled for first time in 400 years

silverguide.site – NatureScot refuses licence for hunt on Hebridean island of Sula Sgeir in which up to 2,000 gannet chicks are killed…
Scottish seabird hunt cancelled for first time in 400 years

July was driest month in southern England since records began

silverguide.site – England and Wales provisionally record driest July in nearly 200 years, Met Office says…
July was driest month in southern England since records began

‘They are such neat, busy little folk’: the unexpected superpowers of the common woodlouse

silverguide.site – This detritivore – known by a range of colourful names – tidies up our world and can withstand toxic pollution…
‘They are such neat, busy little folk’: the unexpected superpowers of the common woodlouse

Revealed: the top 10 invertebrates of the year

silverguide.site – At last! It’s time for our invertebrate of the year competition as voted for by you. Yesterday it was the Lord Howe Island stick insect – come back on Saturday at noon (BST) to find out who else made the top 10…
Revealed: the top 10 invertebrates of the year

Weather tracker: Austria breaks heat records as Japan braces for Typhoon Dolphin

silverguide.site – Soaring temperatures continue to sweep parts of Europe, while Okinawa faces powerful winds and storm surges…
Weather tracker: Austria breaks heat records as Japan braces for Typhoon Dolphin

Country diary: Down an old lead mine, an explosion of colour | Susie White

silverguide.site – Garrigill, Cumbria: The abandoned Tynebottom mine is alive with vivid orange, raspberry-ripple pink and sulphurous yellow. But it’s the cave pearls that captivate me most…
Country diary: Down an old lead mine, an explosion of colour | Susie White

Traffic, mobiles, music … let’s turn the volume down | Letters

silverguide.site – Letters: Readers respond to an editorial on the health impact of noise pollution …
Traffic, mobiles, music … let’s turn the volume down | Letters

Britain could face food shortages as drought continues, farmers warn

silverguide.site – Farmers battle to salvage what they can of their crops as heatwave set to continue…
Britain could face food shortages as drought continues, farmers warn

Solar powers record share of Britain’s electricity mix in July

silverguide.site – Farms and rooftop panels contribute 14.4% to the grid – and figures reveal a surge in new installations…
Solar powers record share of Britain’s electricity mix in July

The ‘great net zero debate’ was anything but – so beware Coalition claims of renewables taking over ‘two Tasmanias’

silverguide.site – One expert described Nationals leader Matt Canavan’s claim of land used for clean energy as ‘plain wrong and plain silly’…
The ‘great net zero debate’ was anything but – so beware Coalition claims of renewables taking over ‘two Tasmanias’
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