Swedish study finds surprising number of environmental pollutants in hedgehogs, including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and heavy metals
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A new wave of positive-impact experiences in northern Finland is finally allowing the Sámi to benefit from the tourism boom
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A Texas horned toad once survived thirty-one years in a time capsule
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Dive into 125 years of Audubon magazine covers, bird by bird
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The Loess plateau was the most eroded place on Earth until China took action
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Rodent for dinner? US residents encouraged to eat invasive nutria.
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Meet the army of women saving India’s rarest stork | Wild Hope
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Apparently magpies and crows are using "Anti-Bird Spikes" to make their nests
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Octopus with a shell
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Drone captures narwhals using their tusks to explore, forage and play
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Beekeepers say catastrophic honeybee losses are cause for alarm
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For more than twenty years, scientists have followed polar bears in Norway's Arctic archipelago to understand how they may adapt to changing threats as the ice they depend on melts
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Norway to open protected rivers to hydropower plants – Green politicians describe plan as ‘a historic attack on Norwegian nature’
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Reindeer movements are causing conflict in the Umeå region ahead of this week's Rally Sweden round of the World Rally Championship
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In the most untouched, pristine parts of the Amazon, birds are dying. Scientists have theories.
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Rewilding - the rogue conservation efforts to reintroduce fauna to Europe
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Sweden begins wolf hunt – five entire families can be killed, totalling thirty wolves, in move campaigners say is illegal under EU law
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The first stripy wind turbine ever turned on: It has achieved a very strange effect
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California squirrels are hunting and eating voles, surprising UC Davis study says
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The hidden engineering of wildlife crossings
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Arctic foxes were almost hunted to extinction in Sweden, Norway and Finland. Can projects to breed and feed them help this native species return for good?
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As warmer Finnish winters melt the snow drifts that endangered Saimaa ringed seals use to raise their young, humans are giving them a helping hand
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A marine heat wave in the Pacific Ocean that began a decade ago killed some four million common murres in Alaska, researchers say
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Iceland has authorised whale hunting for the next five years, despite welfare concerns
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World's oldest known wild bird lays egg at '74'
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Recordings by biologist Heike Vester reveal how oil and gas exploration as well as cruises, fishing boats and even whale-watchers are creating noise pollution that threatens return of Norway's whales
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Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in Scotland rewilding project
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How an English castle became a stork magnet
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Water-hose tool use and showering behavior by Asian elephants
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Inside the successful, decades-long effort to protect the Humboldt Archipelago in Chile
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Climate change and fish farming are endangering the future of Norway's Atlantic salmon
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How a Soviet zoologist remade the Azerbaijan animal species population
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Better know a bird: The wild and kinky mating rituals of the crested auklet
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This spider scientist wants us to appreciate the world's eight-legged wonders
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Giant rats in tiny vests trained to sniff out illegally trafficked wildlife
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Thirty-year species reintroduction experiment shows evolution unfolding in slow motion
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Washington state woman calls 911 after being hounded by up to 100 raccoons
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We've been helping rewild this quarry for a few years now and the transformation has been wonderful to witness
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Welcome to the world of competitive squirrel cookery
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Spider lovers scurry to Colorado town in search of mating tarantulas and community
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Bat loss linked to death of human infants
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Painting one turbine blade black has shown promise for preventing bird collisions
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Hvaldimir, a celebrated ‘spy’ whale, is found dead in Norway – first spotted in 2019 wearing what looked like a camera harness
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Giant 'living tractors', water buffalo are bringing nature back to post-industrial wastelands
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Sphen, partner in Australian same-sex penguin couple, dies
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Sweden to kill 20% of its brown bears in annual hunt – conservationists say number of hunting licences granted is too high and condemn it as ‘pure trophy hunting’
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A little palette cleanser from all of the heavy stuff we talk about here—and a beautiful little surprise for us just before bed
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Lion brothers in search of mates just set a record for longest known swim
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They came from Italy. Now, they outnumber us all.
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Atlantic sturgeon are being reintroduced to Swedish waters with the help of scientists and advocates nearly 100 years after they died out in the region
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