Conservation experts are to reverse five centuries of British history and deliberately allow rising sea levels to flood a huge stretch of reclaimed Essex coastline. In the most ambitious and expensive project of its type, the RSPB intends to puncture sea defences around Wallasea island, near Southend, and turn 728 hectares (1,800 acres) of farmland into a mosaic of saltmarsh, creeks and mudflats – making mainland Britain just a little bit smaller.
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Last week I was reading that 11 new species had been found in a remote part of Vietnam. Depending on who you believe, it appears that there may be even more new species. The Times reports that 21 types have been found. The finds include a frog-eating snake, two butterflies, orchids that grow like fungi and an aspidistra with a flower that is almost black.
Today I was reading about the Slimehead. Yes ….its a fish! Apparently it has been renamed as the Orange Roughy in an attempt to encourage people to eat it.
Most of the polar bears ‘will be wiped out by end of the century’.More than two thirds of the world’s polar bears will be wiped out by 2050, according to a shocking new study.By then, scientists say, global warming will have melted 42 per cent of the Arctic sea ice which the bears need to hunt and breed.
And by 2100, the experts warn, only a handful of the magnificent creatures will be left.
Polar bears depend on floating sea ice as a platform for hunting seals, their main food. But the ice is disappearing throughout the Arctic because of climate change.
