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New Award-Winning Nature Photos Showcase Beauty and Chaos
The natural world is filled with dramas that play out on the macro- and microscopic scales, in our cities and in remote wilderness alike. In the British Ecological Society’s annual photo competition, ‘Capturing Ecology,’ those activities take centre stage as flora and fauna of all sorts find a way to persist in every corner of…
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Thousands of Flamingos in Turkey Killed in Devastating Drought
A massive flamingo colony in central Turkey’s Lake Tuz has been devastated by a regional drought over the last two weeks. The severe dry spell turned the UNESCO-protected Lake Tuz (which translates to “Salt Lake”) into a sere, cracked wasteland, with clumps of unevaporated salt and the dead birds being the main evidence a massive…