Read more about the article Green Lawmakers Axe Trees At Sleeping Beauty Castle To Install Wind Farm
Image shows the Sababurg, also known as the Sleeping Beauty Castle, located in the legendary Reinhardswald, a forested upland in the county of Kassel, Hesse State, Germany. German authorities have built wind power plants around it to help replace fossil fuels. (Newsflash)

Green Lawmakers Axe Trees At Sleeping Beauty Castle To Install Wind Farm

Green politicians in Germany have given the go-ahead to axe dozens of ancient trees and build a wind farm in one of the country's largest mixed forests which reportedly inspired…

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Read more about the article Endangered Elephants At World’s Oldest Zoo Get Huge Tree Treat
Image shows one of the elephants at the Schoenbrunn Zoo, in the city of Vienna, Austria, undated photo. The animals received a belated Christmas surprise in January 2023. (Tiergarten Schoenbrunn, Barbara Feldmann/Newsflash)

Endangered Elephants At World’s Oldest Zoo Get Huge Tree Treat

Endangered African elephants at the world's oldest zoo were thrilled to receive a belated Xmas present when a huge tree was delivered for them to nibble on and play with.…

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Read more about the article Ancient Giant-Headed Amphibian That Used Sticky Tongue To Catch Prey Discovered
Visualization of a roof skull in an undated photo. German Natural History Museum discovered 291-million-year-old, previously unknown amphibian species. (Calliesauria, Museum of Natural History Chemnitz 2022/Newsflash)

Ancient Giant-Headed Amphibian That Used Sticky Tongue To Catch Prey Discovered

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown species of extinct amphibian that used its powerful sticky tongue to catch bugs. The species - named Chemnitzion richteri - used an ambush strategy…

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Read more about the article Alien Invader Wasp Threatens North America’s Forests With Females Capable Of Producing 1,000 Offspring
Sirex noctilio, also known as the Sirex woodwasp. (Flora Krivak-Tetley/Newsflash)

Alien Invader Wasp Threatens North America’s Forests With Females Capable Of Producing 1,000 Offspring

A superwasp able to produce 1,000 offspring is threatening vast forests in North America's, a new study has revealed. The Sirex woodwasp lays its eggs on pine trees in a…

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Read more about the article Scientists Say Tundra Could Be Lost In 30 Years As Trees Take Over
Aerial photo of open Northern forest on the Taymyr Peninsula, Siberia, (proximity of the river Chatanga), consisting of larches. In some parts of this area the trees are growing in dense formations, in others one can see just very few trees. (Stefan Kruse/Newsflash)

Scientists Say Tundra Could Be Lost In 30 Years As Trees Take Over

The unique vegetation of the tundra could disappear by the year 2050 if no substantial reduction of global warming is achieved, scientists have warned. Experts at the Alfred Wegener Institute’s…

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Read more about the article Photographer Reveals Stunning Abandoned Russian Churches Vanishing After Decades Of Neglect
A photo the abandoned Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, Kurba village, Yaroslavl region in Russia by Alexander Sukharev, 30, from Moscow, Russia.

Photographer Reveals Stunning Abandoned Russian Churches Vanishing After Decades Of Neglect

These haunting images of abandoned Russian churches in the middle of fields or hidden in forests have been captured by Russian photographers documenting the country's fast-vanishing religious heritage. Some of…

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Read more about the article Romanians Ask EU To Intervene To Stop Forest Destruction
The environmental organizations have made an official complaint to the European Commission (EC) against the Romanian authorities for the systematic and deliberate destruction of secular forests in protected natural areas.

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Romanian environmental groups have reported their own country to the European Commission for a systematic failure to protect the country's forests. The Agent Green, ClientEarth and EuroNatur organisations have joined…

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