TIL Tag: nature
88 headlines found.
- Reef ball burials: the new trend for becoming "coral" when you die.
February 21, 2022 - James Lovelock, creator of Gaia hypothesis, dies on 103rd birthday
July 27, 2022 - France whale: Lost mammal stuck in River Seine to get vitamin boost.
August 7, 2022 - France whale: Rescue operation begins to save beluga stuck in Seine.
August 10, 2022 - Beluga whale rescued from Seine River euthanized in transit, French authorities say.
August 10, 2022 - Rare golden algae may have caused fish deaths in Oder River, says minister.
August 19, 2022 - Amazon activists mourn death of "man of the hole", last of his tribe.
August 28, 2022 - Alaska cancels snow crab season over population decline.
October 16, 2022 - Egypt shuts down event spaces on first Monday of Cop27 in blow to NGOs
October 25, 2022 - Taronga Zoo: Five lions escape exhibit at Sydney zoo.
November 2, 2022 - Explorers find cameras left on a glacier 85 years ago
November 5, 2022 - New York approves composting of human bodies
January 1, 2023 - 'We dubbed it Toadzilla': giant cane toad believed to be the largest of its species found in Australia
January 20, 2023 - Earth's inner core rotating slower than surface, study suggests
January 25, 2023 - Ocean treaty: Historic agreement reached after decade of talks
March 5, 2023 - Meatballs made with mammoth DNA created by Australian food startup
March 28, 2023 - Global warming set to break key 1.5C limit for first time
May 17, 2023 - Iceland suspends annual whale hunt in move that likely spells end to controversial practice
June 21, 2023 - Amazon nations fall short of agreed goal to end deforestation
August 9, 2023 - Cop28 host UAE breaking its own ban on routine gas flaring, data shows
November 17, 2023 - COP28: UAE planned to use climate talks to make oil deals
November 27, 2023 - Plans to present meat as 'sustainable nutrition' at Cop28 revealed
November 29, 2023 - Parisians vote in favour of tripling parking costs for SUVs
February 5, 2024 - UK ministers consider ban on MPs engaging with pro-Palestine and climate protesters
March 4, 2024 - The scientists learning to speak whale
April 10, 2024 - 'A catastrophe': Greenpeace blocks planting of 'lifesaving' golden rice
May 24, 2024 - Iceland grants whale hunting permit despite animal welfare concerns
June 11, 2024 - The sperm whale 'phonetic alphabet' revealed by AI
July 11, 2024 - Pro-foxhunting group says UK hunters should be protected ethnic minority
August 12, 2024 - One dead, two missing after ice cave collapse in Iceland
August 26, 2024 - Beluga whale alleged to be Russian 'spy' found dead in Norway
September 2, 2024 - The Hague becomes world's first city to ban fossil fuel-related ads
September 13, 2024 - Norway: electric cars outnumber petrol for first time in 'historic milestone'
September 17, 2024 - Woolly rhino found preserved in Russian permafrost after 32,000 years
September 25, 2024 - Herd of tauros to be released into Highlands to recreate aurochs effect
October 10, 2024 - Oil and gas are a 'gift of god', says COP29 host
November 12, 2024 - Iceland issues permits allowing whale hunting until 2029
December 6, 2024 - Two-inch long 'murder hornets' eradicated from US, agriculture department says
December 19, 2024 - Bald eagle officially declared US national bird after 250 years
December 25, 2024 - Icelandic sheepdog, breed mentioned by Shakespeare, is a pedigree at last
December 31, 2024 - Norway rules out fish farm ban despite 'existential threat' to wild salmon
February 4, 2025 - Norway to open protected rivers to hydropower plants
February 13, 2025 - Nauru sells citizenship to help fund relocations as sea levels rise
February 26, 2025 - Scientists created a 'woolly mouse' with mammoth traits. Is it a step toward bringing back the extinct giant?
March 5, 2025 - World's biggest iceberg runs aground after a near-40-year journey from Antarctica
March 5, 2025 - Half of world's CO2 emissions come from 36 fossil fuel firms, study shows
March 5, 2025 - US influencer who snatched baby wombat has left Australia
March 14, 2025 - Jury finds Greenpeace liable for hundreds of millions in relation to pipeline protest
March 19, 2025 - Dire Wolf Resurrected: Colossal's Breakthrough Sparks Debate As Musk Asks For Pet Mammoth
April 8, 2025 - Sycamore Gap: Two men convicted of felling one of UK's most famous trees
May 9, 2025 - Two men behind 'senseless' felling of Sycamore Gap tree jailed for more than four years
July 15, 2025 - Mokie, world's oldest horse once owned by film star Burt Reynolds, dies at 40
July 23, 2025 - Danish zoo asks pet owners to donate rabbits and horses to feed its predators
August 4, 2025 - BP says it makes biggest oil and gas find in 25 years
August 5, 2025 - Plan to reintroduce banned pesticide in France overruled by constitutional council
August 8, 2025 - Lammy refers himself to watchdog after fishing illegally with JD Vance
August 13, 2025 - Three more species of giraffe than previously thought, scientists say
August 21, 2025 - UK river pollution twice as bad inside national parks as outside them
September 16, 2025 - Conservationist Jane Goodall, whose work revolutionized the study of primates, has died
October 1, 2025 - Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity
October 7, 2025 - Pets on flights can be classed as baggage, top EU court rules
October 16, 2025 - Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country
October 21, 2025 - Global use of coal hit record high in 2024
October 22, 2025 - James Watson, geneticist and Nobel Prize co-winner in the structure of DNA, dies at 97
November 8, 2025 - Thousands of dinosaur footprints found on Italian mountain
December 16, 2025 - India's first gene-edited sheep just turned one. How's it doing?
December 27, 2025 - Company that ‘resurrected’ dire wolf announces frozen biovault for endangered species
February 5, 2026 - Floreana giant tortoise reintroduced to Galápagos island after almost 200 years
February 20, 2026 - World's largest acidic geyser wakes up in Yellowstone from six-year slumber
March 3, 2026 - Mexico’s monarch butterfly population jumps 64%, offering hope for at-risk species
March 20, 2026 - Norwegian fish farms polluting fjords with waste likened to ‘raw sewage of millions of people’
May 5, 2026 - Rescue of Timmy the whale ‘an all-round catastrophe’ after tracker failure
May 5, 2026 - Timmy, the stranded humpback whale, found dead off Danish coast
May 17, 2026 - Shell pumped oil through Nigeria pipeline for years despite pollution evidence, documents show
June 3, 2026 - Four days of extreme rain killed 7% of world's rarest orangutans, study says
June 11, 2026 - Judge orders Trump administration to restore signs changed at national parks
June 13, 2026 - Trump’s Justice Department urges court to throw out pollution lawsuit against Elon Musk’s company
June 18, 2026 - First dinosaur bone from Antarctica found in a drawer
June 29, 2026 - Trump administration opens endangered species’ habitats to development, reversing 50 years of environmental law
July 13, 2026 - Argentina court recognizes two goldfish as sentient beings with rights
July 14, 2026 - Biodiversity fears as human-bred hybrid fish integrate into Philippines lake
July 17, 2026 - Brazil's Amazon sees sharp decline in size of area burned in 2025
July 21, 2026 - Joy in Greece as Mount Olympus joins Unesco list of world heritage sites
July 26, 2026 - Extinct toad from the ice age discovered at Los Angeles’ La Brea Tar Pits
August 5, 2026 - Wildfires kill two in Greece and torch Belgian nature reserve
August 16, 2026 - Trump administration to rescind rule protecting old-growth forests
August 18, 2026 - Giant whales move into Greenland waters as ice disappears
August 20, 2026 - One dead and 15 people may be missing after flash flood in Arizona’s Grand Canyon
August 30, 2026