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Swampy and the second runway: 20 years since the battle which transformed Manchester Airport They built tunnels and lived in tree houses during a six-month campaign to thwart the £172m project Updated Daniel Hooper, aka Swampy, protesting at plans to build Runway 2 in 1997 (Image: MEN) This time 20 years ago Manchester Airport had just opened its second runway at a cost of £172m, heralding what was trumpeted as a bright new era for aviation and a jobs bonanza fuelled by no-frills budget airlines. Civic leaders hailed it as an important milestone for a city with ambitions to become an intern...

In theory, such a bird would also be able to both lay and fertilize eggs.

The final anti-HS2 activist in a network of tunnels in London’s Euston Square Gardens has been removed. The protester known only as “Bradley” was removed from the tunnels and taken away in an ambulance on Friday morning. They were the ninth protester to be removed from the tunnels, which were discovered on January 26. Views of Bradley’s removal from the tunnels was blocked by tarpaulins, which have been hung on fences around the edge of the...

For the past month, Blue Sandford has been holed up in a muddy tunnel 15 ft beneath the ground, resisting eviction by bailiffs. ‘I put the crime in criminal,’ she defiantly wrote on her Instagram page alongside a selfie of herself and her brother Lazer huddled together in an underground chamber below London’s Euston station. On Thursday, the 18-year-old, who is protesting against the HS2 rail link, finally gave herself up, emerging above ground alongside veteran eco-warrior Daniel Hooper, a man better known by the nickname ‘Swampy’. Blue Sandford, pictured, who stayed in tunnels nea...

UpdatedThu, Feb 25, 2021 at 10:06 am ET Replies(20) It’s not rare to see a pair of Northern cardinals. But what Waterford, Pennsylvania, birder Jamie Hill saw certainly was rare: a bird known as a bilateral gynandromorph, that is one divided right down the middle, half male and half female. (Shutterstock/Bonnie Taylor Barry) GRAND VALLEY, PA — When she saw the beautiful but peculiar-looking bird at her backyard feeder in Grand Valley, Annette Smith thought it was a genetic hybrid. That sometimes happens in nature — not often, but it does happen. A liger, for example, is a cross betwee...