4+ hour, 1+ min ago   (885+ words) This summer, 19 homes were destroyed by a major fire that broke out in Stourbridge Is this the year climate change became real for people of the Midlands? I mean climate change is real, I've spent a 25-year career telling people…...

3+ hour, 59+ min ago   (622+ words) Dr Jamie Wildman releases a Chequered Skipper into Rockingham Forest Conservationists who have helped reintroduce a butterfly back into England have been awarded £150,000 to expand the project over the next three years. In total, 46 Chequered Skippers were released into Rockingham…...

4+ hour, 10+ min ago   (656+ words) Food traps were used to attract the hornets before monitoring the direction and timing of their flights Beekeepers who feared a damaging new arrival of Asian hornets in the Greater Manchester area helped track down their nest after sightings sparked…...

4+ hour, 17+ min ago   (666+ words) Celine Gamble says oysters are "thriving" in the North Sea Oysters which conservationists hope will improve water quality for years to come are "thriving" in the North Sea, they say. About 1,000 mature native oysters and 15,000 juveniles, known as spat on…...

4+ hour, 15+ min ago   (550+ words) Rare black-necked grebes have made their home at Woolston Eyes near Warrington A restored wetland in Cheshire is now home to almost two-thirds of the UK's breeding black-necked grebes, one of the country's rarest breeding birds. Woolston Eyes, near Warrington,…...

4+ hour, 18+ min ago   (528+ words) A new project is helping to gather data on sharks which can be found off the Kent coastline. Sharks of Kent is an initiative from Kent Wildlife Trust, led by their marine partners Adonis Blue. Sharks are caught and important…...

9+ hour, 8+ min ago   (571+ words) Changeable autumnal conditions are set to continue through this coming week, with spells of wetter and windier weather developing at times. Monday will bring a short-lived burst of warmth and sunshine before temperatures drop to levels more typical for September…...

11+ hour, 17+ min ago   (1019+ words) India's government says 56 glacial lakes had been classified as "very high risk" The Himalayas are approaching a dangerous threshold as glaciers melt faster, glacial lakes grow more unstable and the mountains face a widening gap in monitoring, according to new…...

15+ hour, 4+ min ago   (1349+ words) There has been no shortage of warnings from AI's top bosses about existential threats over the years. I attended the world's first AI safety summit in Bletchley Park in November 2023 where the focus was on the most serious threats imaginable,…...