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Experts call for restrictions on pet flea treatments that harm UK songbirds

silverguide.site – Chemicals known to affect brains of common garden birds, and to kill unborn chicks, found in most feather samples…
Experts call for restrictions on pet flea treatments that harm UK songbirds
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‘They come right past the house’: learning to live with rhinos as numbers soar in Nepal

silverguide.site – The country is seeing an increase in human-wildlife conflict as the number of megafauna, including rhinos and tigers, grows. But there are efforts to tackle the problem around Chitwan national park through education and training…
‘They come right past the house’: learning to live with rhinos as numbers soar in Nepal
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Cattle breed whose ancestors lived with Celts added to priority at-risk list

silverguide.site – UK’s Rare Breeds Survival Trust says calf numbers of white park cattle last year were less than two-thirds of 2022 level…
Cattle breed whose ancestors lived with Celts added to priority at-risk list
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England wildlife watchdog ‘has stopped designating special sites for protection’

silverguide.site – Exclusive: Report finds Natural England has created no new SSSIs, which protect areas from development, since 2023…
England wildlife watchdog ‘has stopped designating special sites for protection’
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Country diary: The most magical of frost-coated mornings | Mark Cocker

silverguide.site – Knotbury, Staffordshire: A truly special dawn, where last night’s ice lingered on everything, and I was joined by no fewer than six ring ouzels…
Country diary: The most magical of frost-coated mornings | Mark Cocker
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Almost half of EU’s busiest flight routes are ‘hard or impossible’ to book on trains – report

silverguide.site – ‘Stone age’ system of booking cross-border rail tickets holding back climate action by consumers, says thinktank…
Almost half of EU’s busiest flight routes are ‘hard or impossible’ to book on trains – report
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Clean energy generation exceeded rise in global electricity demand in 2025

silverguide.site – Output from solar farms rose by a third while electricity from fossil fuels fell, research from thinktank reveals…
Clean energy generation exceeded rise in global electricity demand in 2025
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UK shifts older wind and solar farms to fixed-price deals to reduce price shocks

silverguide.site – Move marks government’s most radical attempt to weaken impact of soaring wholesale gas prices on electricity costs…
UK shifts older wind and solar farms to fixed-price deals to reduce price shocks
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Letter: Lord Haskins obituary

silverguide.site – Derek Spooner writes: He and his wife, Gilda, had campaigned vigorously against apartheid in South Africa…
Letter: Lord Haskins obituary
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Electric car sales soar 51% in mainland Europe as Iran war drives up fuel prices

silverguide.site – Norway leads the way in terms of switching as data shows 224,000 new EVs were registered in March…
Electric car sales soar 51% in mainland Europe as Iran war drives up fuel prices
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Fears more than 1,000 toads may have died after Welsh water firm drains reservoir

silverguide.site – Conservationists in Denbighshire ‘angry and heartbroken’ after Nant-y-Ffrith site emptied during breeding season…
Fears more than 1,000 toads may have died after Welsh water firm drains reservoir
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Weather tracker: temperatures in Spain and Brazil well above late April norm

silverguide.site – Seville could see 34C this week and parts of Brazil could hit high 30s, while storms forecast in southern Africa…
Weather tracker: temperatures in Spain and Brazil well above late April norm
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Burning wood for power worse for climate than gas equivalent, report finds

silverguide.site – Research casts doubt on plans by UK government to offer subsidies for carbon capture attached to the power source…
Burning wood for power worse for climate than gas equivalent, report finds
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Fuel eating microbes, chemicals and fire: the race to discover new ways to contain Arctic oil spills

silverguide.site – As the rising number of vessels in the icy waters increases the risk of environmental disaster, scientists are scrambling to find potential solutions…
Fuel eating microbes, chemicals and fire: the race to discover new ways to contain Arctic oil spills
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From a Surrey oil well to the supreme court: how an activist changed UK climate law

silverguide.site – Sarah Finch’s fight against drilling led to a landmark ruling on fossil fuel emissions – and a leading environmental prize…
From a Surrey oil well to the supreme court: how an activist changed UK climate law
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Woman who won legal case over greenhouse emissions awarded top environmental prize

silverguide.site – Sarah Finch is among six recipients of the Goldman Environmental prize, awarded to honour grassroots activists around the world…
Woman who won legal case over greenhouse emissions awarded top environmental prize
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Country diary: Even in tame horses, a wildness remains | Kate Blincoe

silverguide.site – Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk: A large mare is being aggressive not just to the dying deer in its paddock, but also me for trying to save it…
Country diary: Even in tame horses, a wildness remains | Kate Blincoe
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‘How much have we missed?’: book tunes in to overlooked world of female birdsong

silverguide.site – Authors set out to correct under-representation of female sounds – and found some surprising revelations…
‘How much have we missed?’: book tunes in to overlooked world of female birdsong
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Australia’s coalmine emissions are increasing. Is this how a major policy to cut climate pollution is meant to work?

silverguide.site – The Albanese government overhauled policy and promised significant pollution cuts – but carbon offsets are still being used as an excuse…
Australia’s coalmine emissions are increasing. Is this how a major policy to cut climate pollution is meant to work?
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A prickle of hedgehogs and an armada of newts: wildlife settles in at London’s new Queen Elizabeth garden

silverguide.site – A former horticultural nursery in Regent’s Park has been transformed into a diverse mix of habitats where the public might see some rare species in the heart of the capital…
A prickle of hedgehogs and an armada of newts: wildlife settles in at London’s new Queen Elizabeth garden
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