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The survey involved researchers sweeping back and forth across the island over a six-day period, counting burrows and assessing whether they were used by puffins or rabbits. The island is also home to guillemots, fulmars, terns and gulls, thanks to its lack of predators. In the autumn and winter months, it also plays host to…

The bird, affectionately nicknamed Kinky because of the kink in its broken wing, was nursed back to health by its two, unusually caring parents. In an unprecedented display of extended parenting, the two white-tailed parents skipped a year’s breeding season to continue to tend for their year-old offspring. This latest sighting, though, reveals that the…

A blanket of toxic haze is enveloping parts of Indonesia and spreading into Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines, as weeks-long wildfires continue to burn. Millions of people across large swathes of South East Asia have been exposed to the smog, which in some areas has fuelled “acutely unhealthy” pollution more than 15 times the World…

The 22 deaths of workers on farms in Wales, England and Scotland during 2025-26 was the highest in a decade, and second only to the number of deaths of those working in construction (27), according to HSE figures., external But the rate of farm deaths was seven times higher per 100,000 workers, and 21 times…

For the sixth time in history, a team of two women completed a spacewalk outside the International Space Station. Nasa astronaut Jessica Meir and French astronaut Sophie Adenot suited up for a 6.5-hour spacewalk. Meir rode the station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm to the worksites, while Adenot remained tethered to the station. Meir previously made history…