News Archive | August 2019

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August 30th
- Seals might look adorable — but they'll take your fingers off if you're not careful, experts warn
- 'Tipping point' reached for green energy as renewables topple coal across OECD nations
- Country Life Today: Summer's most beautiful invader, and farewell to the model of the 21st century Duke
- Cerne Abbas Giant to be re-chalked to former glory
August 29th
- Somerset cow gives birth to triplets, defying 1-in-100,000 odds
- The elusive birds attracted by this British summer, from the corncrake to the brown booby
- Country Life Today: Sheepdogs guarding geese, our best ever blackberry jam recipe and cows just jumping for joy
August 28th
- A historic Suffolk landmark finally has new wind in its sails after a year-long conservation effort
- Guard dogs are seeing off foxes and badgers to protect one Somerset farm's poultry population
- Insect protein for pets is being recommended by vets - but is it really better for animals and the environment?
- A previously unknown freshwater pearl mussel population has been discovered in a secret location in Scotland
- Country Life Today: The unveiling of 'Poly' the plastic seal and why The Lion King's meal of grubs may be better for your dog than steak
August 27th
- Countryside to get 5G mobile connectivity ... and taller phone masts
- Britain braces for Pacific pink salmon invasion
- Country Life Today: The secret life of pigs
August 23rd
- Dog owners fitter, slimmer and healthier, study finds
- As happy as a pig in mud or feeling sow-er? New technology could read animals’ emotions
- Country Life today: A coastal warning, sheep at Hamptead Heath and proof we’re all dog people
August 22nd
- Villagers fight to save telephone box that protected them during WWII
- Charity raises concern over health of British rivers
- Rewilding project aims to restore white stork species in Southern England
- Country Life today: Eagles spell trouble, the cheapest Cotswolds cottage and an underground farm
August 21st
- The charming Cotswolds house that could be yours for just £12,000 (just mind your head)
- Growing Underground: London air raid shelter provides unlikely setting for salad farm
- Extreme weather exposes shipwreck of a sailing boat that sunk without trace in 1854
- Country Life today: A scorching forecast, hidden plastic pollution and a moo-ving rescue
August 20th
- UK’s forests celebrated with stunning stamp collection
- Researchers discover concerning plastic ‘pebbles’ littering UK beaches
- Black kites set to colonise the UK for the first time
- Country Life Today: The value of green spaces, floating farms and a boost for the little tern
August 19th
- Making waves: Could floating dairy in Europe's busiest port pave the way for future farming?
- The little tern has just enjoyed its most successful season in almost 30 years
- Vegetables, cows and horses star in very countryside-friendly list of the best jokes at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
- Country Life Today: The sleepy English village where people keep on digging up treasure
August 16th
- Country Life Today: What it's like to spend two months alone in a remote cottage on the Moors
August 15th
- Toxic algae in ponds across Britain can be fatal for dogs, warn vets
- Country Life Today: How four out of five children can't recognise a bumblebee or an oak leaf
- Scientist recreates the face of a 2,000-year-old druid from Scotland
August 14th
- A golden eagle has been spotted high above Deeside with its leg caught in a trap
- Country Life Today: The mystery of black squirrels has been solved
August 13th
- Underwater cameras show determined nursehound shark off Alderney's coast
- Why the black soldier fly could save the planet
- 'She’s not someone you easily imagine in wellies': The challenges faced by Theresa Villiers, Defra's new chief
- Dubbed the Glastonbury of birdwatching, Birdfair promises a weekend of wildlife fun
- Council's decision to spray weedkiller on Hoylake Beach called 'the dumbest act of environmental vandalism'
- Country Life Today: The rare pink grasshoppers appearing across Britain, and an ancient gold ring found in Kent
August 12th
- The challenges facing grouse shooting, from draining moors and heather beetles to the corridors of Westminster
- A centuries-old altar cloth from a rural English church turned out to be the 'lost dress' of Elizabeth I, and it's set to go on public display
- CCTV, laser-beams and even digging moats: How farmers are protecting themselves from rising rural crime
- Country Life Today: River Frome turns neon blue, and the truth about Britain's self-sufficiency
August 9th
- Tintagel's new bridge: Dramatic, contentious and finally open to visitors
- Piglets, sunrises and sheep trying to drive tractors: A day in the life of Britain's farmers, as shared via #farm24
- Country Life Today: How everyone in Britain — yes, including farmers — wins when we eat less meat and more vegetables
August 8th
- 'There is real potential here... things we are already doing' — IPCC gets positive about climate change in latest report
- Country Life Today: The 'Holy Grail' of gooseberries has been grown in Yorkshire
August 7th
- Revealed: How to stop seagulls from stealing your chips
- Country Life Today: The Viking drinking hall unearthed on Orkney, and why harvest mice fall asleep in flowers
August 6th
- Country Life Today: The Spitfire flying round the world, the 'robot nanny' for Britain's sharks and an electronic tongue that tastes whisky
August 5th
- Sutton Hoo's £4m transformation from 'boring heaps of earth' to a place that gives a 'tingle in the hairs on the back of your neck'
- Country Life Today: How crime in the countryside is on the up once more
August 2nd
- How your washing-up water can help save street trees
- Yorkshire castle removed from ‘at risk’ register thanks to 10-year repair programme
- Potential French law aims to preserve the countryside's most integral (and apparently, annoying) sounds
- Country Life Today: Dinosaur protection in Skye, rush hour on the farm and a chocoholic on the run
August 1st
- Plastic-free supermarkets a step closer thanks to new scheme's popularity
- ‘We are in it together’: The Duchess of Sussex launches workwear range to help women gain employment
- Glow-in-the-dark pocket shark discovered by scientists
- Country Life Today: Plastic bag sales plummet by 90% thanks to Blue Planet effect and seagulls are up to no good in an Exeter pub