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Science/Nature

First otter reaches Farne Islands
An otter has survived a "perilous" three-mile sea crossing to the Farne Islands for the first time, the National Trust says.
Beavers arrive for spring release
Four Norwegian beaver families arrive in the UK as part of an historic plan to reintroduce the mammals to Scotland.
Mammoth's genome pieced together
A US-Russian team announces that it has sequenced most of the genome of a woolly mammoth found in Siberia.
Slow progress on ocean protection
Two year after pledging to protect 10% of the oceans, governments have protected less than 1%, a survey finds.
Sparrow numbers 'plummet by 68%'
The loss of green spaces in Britain has caused the number of house sparrows to drop sharply in the past 30 years.


Science/Nature News Video Box

Mobiles compared: Storm v INQ1
The BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones and Dan Simmons put two mobiles to the test, the Blackberry Storm and 3's INQ1.
Endeavour astronauts' spacewalk
Astronauts Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper and Stephen Bowen have taken part in the first of four spacewalks of the Endeavour's current mission to the International Space Station.
Space station marks 10th birthday
Space agencies are marking 10 years since the first stage of the International Space Station was put into orbit. In 1998 it was hailed as a sign of hope for humanity and an orbiting scientific city in the sky. Pallab Ghosh examines how successful the ISS has been.
Fears for UK honey supply
Bee keepers are warning that there could be no domestically produced honey left on supermarket shelves by Christmas.

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