Wednesday, 4 November 2026
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From 2021 to 2025, researchers measured soil temperature and moisture in 40 plots with 96 plant species. Surface temperature seen from space was the best indicator of stress.
She was found in July, thin, dehydrated and with mouth lesions. After recovering, she flew free on 10 October. In Madrid, imperial eagle pairs went from 30 to 83 in fourteen years.
The great royal drove roads, the routes livestock have used to cross Spain for centuries, will get better boundary marking, digital mapping and defence against encroachment. They're public land and wildlife corridors too.
Surveyors climbed to the top in September with high-precision GNSS and, for the first time, a gravimeter. The rock lies about 15 metres lower: it's the ice that rises and falls.
The female seals herself into a tree hole and the male brings her food: a habit that gives the nest away. Chicks end up in the illegal trade and adults are killed for their casques.
A single mussel can filter about 663,000 litres of water over a 60-year life. In North America, 66% of freshwater mussel species are at risk.
Four years remain to meet the pledge to protect 30% of land and sea. Funding is barely a quarter of what's needed, and 65 countries have no concrete targets.
From 1 to 19 October there were 1,921 hotspots in Amazonas, up 202% on 2025. Authorities have arrested 11 people and opened 120 cases over deliberately set fires.
In the Sierra de la Culebra, La Paramera, Arlanza and Sierra de Francia, areas treated with straw mulch, wood chips or small check dams show greater fungal diversity.
16 of the world's 23 vulture species are already of conservation concern. Researchers, including from the University of the Basque Country, propose five urgent measures.
Using 'horizon scanning', scientists from CSIC, the University of Girona and 27 other institutions listed the invaders of greatest concern before they arrive.
At Gallocanta, the cranes' spring migration is moving 3.7 days earlier per decade. Adult Spanish storks now winter at home, drawn by landfills and rice fields.
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