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Network of marine protected areas ‘could help safeguard Antarctic penguins’ (Heather Lynch/Stony Brook University/PA) Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Breeding Antarctic penguins could be helped by a proposed network of marine protected areas (MPAs), according to new research. Experts say these areas could safeguard some of the most important areas at sea for the flightless birds. The findings, published on Pengui...

These mesmerising pictures were taken by International Space Station astronauts from over 200 miles up The photos show some of Earth's most beautiful places and the scale of dramatic atmospheric conditions  There's also a shot of the Kerguelen Islands, which sit in the vast emptiness of the southern Indian Ocean  Let's go up, up and away to a tranquil place where we can all get a bit of perspective on life - orbit. These mesmerising pictures were taken by International Space Station astronauts as they whizzed over the globe, over 200 miles up, and have all been deemed by Nasa as the best E...

Sax-Zim Bog winter birding offers a great pandemic getaway close to home. 12:00 pm, Jan. 8, 2021 × John Alexander Kay (left) and John Heino photograph birds at Sax-Zim Bog recently. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com) MEADOWLANDS — Flittering around a bird feeder set along a gravel county road, in the middle of nowhere in the heart of the Sax-Zim Bog, ruddy pine grosbeaks were the stars of the moment. They come this far south most winters, but they really inundated the bog in December, and on a 9-degree morning they were battling for landing zone space with Canada jays (whi...

Brandon Sun By: Tyler Clarke The Nature Conservancy of Canada is close to achieving something big. Advertisement The Nature Conservancy of Canada is close to achieving something big. A land deal they’re on the verge of closing would help them secure a 114.6-hectare parcel of land. JACQUES BRISSON A yellow rail, which is seen in abundance at Douglas Marsh. Located south of the Town of Douglas on the west side of Provincial Highway 340, the parcel of land, known as Douglas Marsh 4, would more than double their existing conservation site...

Zosterops meeki. And it looks like we’ve done so just in time, because two of the species – the Tagula Butcherbird and Tagula White-eye – are Near Threatened. Logging, agricultural expansion and commercial gold prospecting are destroying their rainforest habitats. These vital new discoveries came in large part from research lead by one scientist, William Goulding, whose ambition is to improve knowledge of all the endemic bird species of Tagula and the wider Louisiade Archipelago. His research projects employ and train local people and include public education and awareness-raising campa...