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Bye-bye dark sky: is light pollution costing us more than just the night-time?Humans, birds and several other animals are finding it increasingly challenging to experience night-time uninterrupted by artificial light, while some creatures are handling the change better than others. Hein van Grouw, Senior Curator of Birds, and UK Biodiversity Training Manager Steph West reveal the impacts of light pollution on British wildlife and a few tips for reclaiming your slice of the night sky.
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Oldfield Thomas: In His Own Words.Compilation of a series of non-academic articles written by Oldfield Thomas for the public press.
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Using the “Natural History Large Hadron Collider” to tell us about plant diversityA study published today in BMC Biology uses the RAINBIO dataset, a database of herbarium specimens, to analyze African plant diversity. In this blog we invited Sandra Knapp, a plant taxonomist at the Natural History Museum in London, to talk about the study and the importance of herbaria, which she regards as the “CERN of natural history”.
