‘Exploratory and curious animals’: mysterious rise in orca sightings off Northumberland coast
‘Exploratory and curious animals’: mysterious rise in orca sightings off Northumberland coast Reasons for increase not clear but experts say…
Big gains for little terns: how Lindisfarne reserve is helping a rare bird survive tourism
A little tern on its nest, or scrape, with chicks. Photograph: Kevin Simmonds/RSPBView image in fullscreenA little tern on its…
Blossoming among spoil heaps: how 1,000 years of lead mining gave birth to banks of pansies and pennycress
A mountain pansy at Briarwood Banks, one of the increasingly rare calaminarian grasslands in Northumberland. These ‘metallophyte’ plants have adapted…