Birds return to waterfowl park after oil vandalism

An experiment with ultracold potassium atoms has revealed details of a type of turbulence that only exists in the quantum realm and relies on odd tangles of stringy whirlpools

Violent storms lash northern Iraq and parts of Iran, while Portugal faces strong winds and Japan braces for further snowfall Deadly flash floods hit northern Iraq on Saturday as severe thunderstorms swept across the region, including in neighbouring Iran. The city of Erbil, in Iraq, was particularly badly hit, with extensive damage to homes and businesses. Streets were inundated as torrential rain fell over a short period. Rainfall exceeded forecasts, with an estimated 80mm falling in the city,

There is no ‘saving’ these traumatised mammals from places like Marineland in Canada. Humans need to understand that our actions are not easily undone Remember “Save the whales”? Now that was an environmental campaign everyone could get behind. Surely you don’t want whales to die! It may have got the 1986 global ban on commercial whaling over the line, but in these sophisticated times that slogan seems woefully reductive, even naive. As Greenpeace warns on its website, 40 years later: “There is

UN climate summit will focus on how to implement the targets needed to urgently cut greenhouse gas emissions What is at stake at the UN climate summit and what can it achieve? Key players at the climate talks Hello, and welcome to the live blog for Cop31, this year’s UN climate summit. I’m Ajit Niranjan, the European environment correspondent – I’ll be running the liveblog from Berlin over the next two weeks while my colleagues in Antalya, Turkey, bring us updates from where the action is. We’re