Hi All, We have had to removed these threads because various media corporations and now searching the entire internet, websites, for copyrighted articles in order to stop anyone from posting their articles on websites like this one. For those that they find which of course is vast they then are demanding 'x' amount of money from such sites. This has in fact happened to one of our EA friends who notified us about what is now beginning to happen all over the internet. To us this is a very sad ..read more

Country diary: Birdsong fills the farm – and suddenly I know what it all is Tebay, Cumbria: My experience of doing the daily tasks has been transformed by an app. I'm amazed at what I have around me Andrea Meanwell Guardian 6 Jun 2023 It's now been five years since we entered into a Countryside Stewardship environmental agreement on the farm, and fenced off a wide riparian strip alongside the River Lune. There were already quite a few trees in this patch – mainly oak, sycamore and ro ..read more

Snow fly in US and Canada can detach its legs to survive, research shows Flies chilled to sub-zero temperatures amputate one or more of their six limbs to protect their internal organs Chris Baraniuk GuardiaN 6/5/2023 Flightless snow flies in the US and Canada can amputate their legs to survive as they begin to freeze, researchers have discovered. Lab experiments in which the flies were chilled gradually to sub-zero temperatures revealed they can detach one or more of their six legs ..read more

How Did Birds First Take Off? It took 150 million years for feathered dinosaurs to master flight and become the birds we see overhead today. By Carl Zimmer NYT 6/5/2023  In 1993, "Jurassic Park" helped inspire 9-year-old Stephen Brusatte to become a paleontologist. So Dr. Brusatte was thrilled to advise the producers of last year's "Jurassic World: Dominion" on what scientists had learned about dinosaurs since he was a child. He was especially happy to see one of the most important di ..read more

Butterfly loved by Churchill back in England after almost 100 years Black-veined whites, thought to have died out in 1920s, have seemingly returned due to warmer climate Donna Ferguson Guardian Mon 5 Jun 2023 When they last roamed England in 1925, they counted Winston Churchill as a fan. Now, black-veined whites – an extremely rare species of British butterfly – have been spotted fluttering once again. Small numbers of the black and white insects have been spotted in fields and hedge ..read more

NASA's Mars helicopter is somehow still flying — and playing hide-and-seek Scientists thought Ingenuity would fail years ago. It's still flying, although NASA has to search for it occasionally. By Daniel Wu WA Post 6/5/2023 For about a week in April, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory searched anxiously for signs of life on Mars. Lost somewhere in the undulating terrain of a Martian riverbed was Ingenuity, the pint-size, astonishingly sturdy helicopter that had just complet ..read more

How to help pets in Ukraine: 8 charities you can donate to Here's how you can help rescue shelters during the ongoing war By Lisa Joyner    Country Living 4/9/2022 Are you wondering how to help pets in Ukraine? As the war continues to unfold, organisations on the ground and globally are actively supporting animal charities to ensure stray dogs and cats find shelter. According to Open Cages, https://opencages.org/blog/help-animals-in-ukraine, countries including Latvia, Poland and Roma ..read more

The week in wildlife – in pictures The best of this week's wildlife photographs, including owl chicks, a white moose calf and hungry brown bear cubs Karin Andreasson Guardian 3 Jun 2023 Click to see all: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2023/jun/02/the-week-in-wildlife-in-pictures ..read more

Top US chemical firms to pay $1.2bn to settle water contamination lawsuits Dupont, Chemours and Corteva agree deal and 3M also reportedly considering $10bn settlement to avoid trial due to start on Monday Carey Gillam and Shannon Kelleher Guardian 3 Jun 2023 DuPont and two related companies said they would pay close to $1.2bn to settle liability claims brought by public water systems serving the vast majority of the US population on Friday, just days before the start of a bellwether ..read more

More than 800m Amazon trees felled in six years to meet beef demand Investigation involving Guardian shows systematic and vast forest loss linked to cattle farming in Brazil Andrew Wasley, Elisângela Mendonça, Youssr Youssef and Robert Soutar Guardian 3 Jun 2023 More than 800m trees have been cut down in the Amazon rainforest in just six years to feed the world's appetite for Brazilian beef, according to a new investigation, despite dire warnings about the forest's importance in fight ..read more