Environment

Japanese whale hunters have admitted butchering 120 pregnant minke whales. In a report detailing a whaling expedition in the Southern Ocean, the slaughter of 333 minkie whales is detailed, of which 181 were females, including 122 pregnant ones. The report on the three-month expedition which began at the end of last year was submitted by to the International Whaling Commission. The grisly details will add to international condemnation of the Japanese whaling fleet. Despite an international ban on the practice,...

This spectacular set of images captures the bird diving from a great height

Members of the public were shocked to find the heavily decomposed minke whale on Sunday night.

Cal Major started Paddle Against Plastic to bring positivity to the plastic pollution crisis

But the the winner of the Society of International Nature and Wildlife Photographers' Joys of Nature contest was a lovely picture of a pair of harvest mice.

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It was a bolt from the bleu

A decade long study found numbers of the adorable creature have halved because of fewer days of snow cover.

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