Climate activist Greta Thunberg won the first edition of the Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity. The award, one million euros, will be fully donated.…
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Andaluzia’s population has increased by more than 6% since last year’s census, local authorities revealed today. This bird of prey, endemic to Portugal and Spain, is an Endangered species in both countries.…
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Santos city, on the Brazilian coast near São Paulo, has scattered in its streets and public gardens 120 photographs of the bird species living in that urban area and has built a birdwatching tower. It wants people to start noticing nature.…
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Six new nature books for your summer. This is our top list to make your August a little wilder.…
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Probably at some point you even have seen this common turtle (Caretta caretta) named "Lolita". In 2014 it was in the Oceanarium of Lisbon, during its recovery, after being caught in fishing nets. It was returned to the sea this month and has already travelled more than 130 km.…
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After many hours waiting, Gonçalo Rosa got his chance. This Portuguese photographer captured a family of otter, in the wild, near Idanha-a-Nova city. A few days ago he learnt that photo is a finalist in BioPhotoContest 2015, an international nature photo contest.…
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On a rocky deserted islet off the coast of São Tomé e Príncipe, Gulf of Guinea, lives a lizard new to Science. A Portuguese scientist has just described this new species in a paper publish in Zootaxa science magazine. It’s the Adamastor Skink.…
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James Cook University researchers in Australia glued tiny transmitters to the backs of the 960 bees for the first time. They want to know what a bee does when it’s sick.…
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Drawing birds can be a challenge for anyone. Even for the experts. Birds can be very fast. In fact, we hardly have enough time to draw them in a realistic way while they are standing still. That’s why we asked nature Portuguese artist Marco Nunes Correia help. He’s going to lead the way, step by…
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Nature artist Marco Nunes Correia is going to help you, step-by-step, to draw a robin.…
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Our choices for nature writing books published in July.…
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