Four breeding seasons after a deadly bird flu outbreak forced a colony of Sandwich Terns to leave their nesting ground, the seabirds have returned in record numbers, creating one of England’s largest breeding sites. Monitoring reports published by Rare Bird Alert confirm that Sandwich Terns (Thalasseus sandvicensis) nested at RSPB Pagham Harbour in West Sussex…

For nearly a decade, a California town fought to seize its privately owned water utility California’s highest court has rejected a key legal argument in a decade-long effort by a Southern California town to take control of its local water system. The California Supreme Court ruled 7-0, August 24, against the Town of Apple Valley,…

dormouseRepresentative image from Canva In 1902, a small population of edible dormice was released at Tring Park, a private estate in Hertfordshire, as part of a Victorian-era fascination with exotic wildlife. More than a century later, that single introduction has grown into a national problem: by 2018, the Mammal Society estimated around 23,000 edible dormice…

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 49,571 people in July, marking the highest monthly arrest tally during President Donald Trump’s second term, according to government data analysed by The Associated Press.The figure was 15 per cent higher than the 43,021 arrests recorded in June and about 70 per…

Meet Kinley Rasmus, the 12-year-old Alabama girl who became only the 25th girl to play in the Little League World Series Kinley Rasmus entered the Little League World Series with a famous baseball surname and left her own mark on the tournament’s history. The 12-year-old from Phenix City, Alabama, became only the 25th girl to…

Alyssa Yu (Poolesville High School, Poolesville, MD) A 17-year-old student from Maryland has developed a new mathematical framework to predict how multiple infectious diseases interact and spread through connected populations at the same time. Alyssa Yu, a senior at Poolesville High School in Montgomery County, created the computer model to address a major gap in…

Beauty therapist Chantelle Van Vliet wins £32,237 after tribunal finds discrimination over menopause symptoms. For Chantelle Van Vliet, asking for a little flexibility at work became the beginning of a painful legal battle. The 48-year-old beauty therapist had spent more than two decades building a career in the aesthetics industry, working at prestigious spas around…

Dalton Highway south of the Continental Divide in the summer. Image Credit: Bureau of Land Management The Dalton Highway cuts through some of the most remote country in the United States, running 414 miles from Livengood in northern Alaska to Deadhorse near the Arctic Ocean. Built to support construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, the road…