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Environment
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“We’re Getting Torrential Downpours Of Droppings” – UK Village Laments Invasion Of Starlings
20 Mar 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Ever since the birds started swarming the village a couple of weeks ago, they’ve created an immense mess, coating entire cars and homes in their poop.
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Watch This Angry Elephant Lift A Safari Jeep With Its Tusks In Pilanesberg National Park While The People Inside Cower Down [Video]
20 Mar 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
A video shows a charging bull elephant in the Pilanesberg National Park as it lifts the safari jeep with tourists inside cowering behind their seats.
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KZN Crocodile Handler Survived Attack By The Skin Of His Teeth [Video]
19 Mar 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
The close call happened during a live show at Crocodile Creek, in Greylands – 14 kilometres from Ballito – after which the handler was rushed to the hospital.
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Nigeria Risks Losing All Of Its Forest Elephants
14 Mar 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Nigeria is one of 37 African countries where elephants are still found in the wild, but their numbers are reducing as human activity encroaches on their natural forest habitat.
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Startup’s Breakthrough Waterless Cleaning “Restores Second-Hand Clothes To A Near-New State””
14 Mar 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Many brands choose to throw out worn and returned clothing because it is deemed less costly to just trash than to repair it.
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Young Lions Traumatised By The Ukrainian War Find Some Peace At South African Cat Sanctuary
13 Mar 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Two lion brothers have finally found a new home in South Africa after being caught up in the human war in Ukraine.
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Amazing Footage Captures Young Maharashtra Boy Calmly Locking A Leopard In A Room [Video]
13 Mar 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
It’s not every day that you’re casually scrolling through your phone and a leopard walks into the room.
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France’s Obsession With Frog Legs Is Driving An Asian Frog Species To Extinction
11 Mar 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
More than 500 experts from research, veterinary and conservation groups have called on the French president to “end the overexploitation of frogs” and afford the most traded species better protections.
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We Can Thank An Obsessed Insect Hunter For Daylight Savings
11 Mar 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Not one to let his insect-hunting be curtailed by working hours, Hudson proposed a solution: shift the clocks back two hours during summer months.
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South Africa Is Planning An Epic R450 Million Mouse Hunt On A Remote Island
11 Mar 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Mice might force 19 of the 28 species of breeding seabirds on the island into local extinction over the next 30 years.
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Why This South African Succulent Is A “Miracle Plant”
08 Mar 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
This amazing plant creates “forest-like micro-environments”, a ‘carpet’ of leaves that trap water and dust and nutrients, as well as carbon.
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Adorable Little Gaia Is Really ‘The World’s Deadliest Cat’
07 Mar 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Just one Gaia can eat upwards of 3,000 rodents a year.
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Scientists Have Finally Figured Out Why Humans Don’t Have Tails
06 Mar 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
About half a billion years ago most of the vertebrates on earth had tails, but migration from trees to a more land-based environment is believed to have hastened our tail loss.
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SA Orca Duo Port And Starboard Are Blowing Scientists’ Minds Again – Lone Hunt Of Shark Filmed In Mossel Bay [Watch]
06 Mar 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Researchers were nearby to record the event, with one saying it was both “devastating and intensely powerful”.
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Strange Structure In Antarctica Is Stoking The Imagination Of Many [Video]
04 Mar 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Piercing through layers of snow and ice, the strange structure has been raising eyebrows worldwide.
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They’re Calling This Area Just Outside Of Johannesburg The Most Polluted Place On Earth
04 Mar 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
The 1.7 million people who live there are forced to endure the perilous onslaught of some of the planet’s most hazardous pollution, thanks in large part to a heavy veil of smoke that cloaks Africa’s biggest steel mill.
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Dashcam Footage Shows Massive Boulders Smashing Cars And Trucks On Peruvian Mountain Pass
04 Mar 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Heavy rainfall in the area has been blamed for destabilising the ground on the mountains slopes around San Mateo.
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Now You’re Never Going To Stop Thinking About This Living Frog With A Mushroom Sprouting Out Of Its Body
01 Mar 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
The frog is alive, AKA not decaying in death, and yet it has some fungi hitching a ride on its body. Obviously scientists are baffled.
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Expert Touches On Johannesburg’s Water Crisis As It Gets Worse
28 Feb 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Since late 2023, scarcely a week has passed without residents in this bustling commercial hub experiencing disruptions to their water supply.
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World’s Largest Anaconda Snake With ‘Human-Sized’ Head Found In Amazon [Video]
22 Feb 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
The stunning serpent was found to measure 26 feet long (around 8 metres) with a weight of 440 lbs (200 kilograms) and a head as large as a human’s.
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A 3.4 Underwater Earthquake Hit 76 Kilometres West Of Cape Town Yesterday
22 Feb 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) reported the quake about 76 kilometres West of Cape Town at a shallow depth of 10 kilometres.
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Unexpected Wave Sweeps Toddler In A Pram Off Kalk Bay Harbour Pier
21 Feb 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
It must have been a sight to behold watching all the people come together to help each other.
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SPCA Evicts Weird ‘Chicken Cult’ From Newlands Forest
20 Feb 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Onlookers seemed to think some weird chicken cult was preparing for a ‘religious animal ritual.’
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Tragic Santorini Shipwreck Now A Ticking Environmental Time Bomb
19 Feb 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
17 years later the ship is still sitting in the ocean, leaking toxins, chemicals and heavy metals into the ocean all around the world-famous Greek island and its beautiful caldera.
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Video Of ‘Green And Red Flying Object’ In Storm Cloud Had Boksburg In A Tizz Over The Weekend
19 Feb 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
“Hovered for quite a while next to a lightning cloud which was also weird because there was only lightning in this one particular cloud, no thunder no storm anywhere else. Then this object rose straight up and hovered there..”
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“Appalling And Deeply Concerning” Says NSPCA As Northern Cape School Offers ‘Shoot A Lion’ Fundraiser
19 Feb 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
The animal welfare organisation condemned the ludicrous fundraising auction held by the little-known school in Jan Kempdorp, which offered a “lioness hunt” worth R40,000 as a prize.
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Graphic Video Shows Hunter Being Hurled In The Air By Buffalo In Eastern Cape [Watch]
16 Feb 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Graphic footage shows the moment a massive buffalo flipped a hunter into the air and punctured his leg while another hunter took daring shots at the horned creature.
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Invasive Redclaw Crayfish Are Moving Into Kruger National Park
15 Feb 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Africa has no native freshwater crayfish species, with the closest ecological equivalent being freshwater crabs.
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Fire And Ice In Iceland As Another Lava Fissure Opens Up, Leaving Residents In The Cold [Videos]
12 Feb 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Although scientists are learning more with every eruption, there’s still a great deal of uncertainty for Iceland as a new volcanic era begins.
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Barcelona Residents Might Be Facing Their Own Day Zero Soon
02 Feb 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Below-average rainfall since 2020 has Spain’s Catalonia region bracing for severe water restrictions as dams and reservoirs run dry.
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