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“Complete extermination is the only way currently that we can preserve our native red squirrel,” he said. “Unfortunately there is no other answer. “As long as the grey squirrel remains it will carry the pox virus which is fatal to our native red.” He said he understood people might think it was a step too…

A monkey that has striking pinkish-orange lips and a black face – and lives in the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo – has been confirmed as a new species to science. The black-furred primate was spotted and photographed hidden away in the high tree canopy of dense tropical forests in Lomami National Park,…

In the southeast of England, “we are seeing the emergence of new warmer climates”, explains Kendon. At the same time areas including Vale of York and Lancashire have similar temperatures now to those seen in Greater London in 1961-1990. “Think of this warming as moving north and uphill,” Kendon explains, highlighting that the UK is…

The first of four juvenile ospreys, hatched as the result of a reintroduction programme in Dorset, has taken flight. Female CJ7 and male 022 laid four eggs in April at a nest site near Wareham for the third year in a row. The birds were the first to take up residence in the area as…

Watson’s instinct is to keep the uncertainty visible. For him, caution is not complacency. It is a demand for precision. Rahmstorf draws a different lesson from the same uncertainty. He sees a risk that is low enough to remain debated, but severe enough to demand action. “We will not have certainty before it’s too late,”…

Palaeontologists in Thailand say they have discovered a new species of dinosaur from fossils found in Kalasin Province in the country’s north-east. The plant-eating dinosaur, named Uragasaurus kalasinensis, is thought to have lived about 150 million years ago. It had an unusually long neck and measured up to 20m (66ft) – roughly the length of…