Since 2006, researchers working with the Instituto Socioambiental have restored 75 riparian forest sites along a 500km stretch of Mato Grosso, Brazil, using five different approaches, three direct seeding techniques (broadcast, hole and row), seedling planting, and natural regeneration. Fifteen years on, a study published in the Journal of Environmental Management found the results were…

Katie Zacharia admits that she never passed the bar exam. The new White House press secretary, Katie Zacharia, admitted that she failed her bar exam the first time she took it in 2011 in California and never retook it, as she then moved to China with her husband. In an interview on Fox News with…

The Amazon’s fish live in water that can change dramatically with the seasons. In some places, oxygen levels fall so low that ordinary gill breathing is not enough. Several Amazonian species have adapted by taking oxygen from the air or by breathing at the water’s surface. That unusual ability is now being considered alongside another…

UK weather forecast: 26°C scorcher on the way, hotter than Athens and Barcelona Temperatures in Britain will soar dramatically towards the end of the week, as forecasters have predicted a high of 26⁰C in the south east on Friday. Britain experienced a cold snap earlier in May, with northerly winds blowing Arctic air into the…

One million young people to be offered Meningitis B vaccine after deadly UK outbreaks / Image – file Around one million young people across the UK will be offered a meningitis B (MenB) vaccine under a major new NHS programme launched in response to a series of outbreaks that have claimed lives and raised concerns…