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Week in wildlife in pictures: Hampshire beaver babies, bubbly lizards and a shopaholic koala

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The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world

Fish! Do they have feelings? Now everyone wants to know about the emotional lives of fish! | First Dog on the Moon

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Do fish feel despair or longing? Do they yearn for a simpler time?

Wildfires ravaging northern Portugal – in pictures

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Since last week, wildfires have been raging in central and northern Portugal. At least seven people have died and 50 have been injured. More than 5,000 firefighters have been mobilised to battle the blazes

UK’s first ever bison bridges under construction in Kent woodland

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Four bridges will allow herds to pass beneath public footpaths while visitors may catch glimpse of bison from above

When Europe’s heaviest land mammals were introduced into a woodland on the edge of Canterbury, it was hoped they would flourish and make space for other wildlife.

But the European bison have been so successful in West Blean and Thornden Woods that more space must be made for them – in the form of Britain’s first ever bison bridges.

‘You basically have free hot water’: how Cyprus became a world leader in solar heating

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The country, which has more 300 days of sunshine a year, has embraced rooftop systems that harness the sun’s energy

The Thriamvos company truck pulls up at noon outside the four-storey building in the heart of Nicosia.

It’s the third rooftop installation of a solar-powered water heating system that Petros Mihali and his assistant, Soteris, have made in the Cypriot capital since their working day began at 7am.

‘It’s a warning’: UK nature chief sounds alarm over ecosystem collapse as butterfly numbers halve

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In a Guardian interview, Tony Juniper says housebuilding plans could be an opportunity to create ‘wild belts’ around cities to help habitat and species recovery

The collapse in British butterfly populations is a “warning from nature” about the resilience of the UK’s ecosystems, says England’s nature chief, raising concerns about threats to national food security as the planet continues to heat.

Elite US universities rake in millions from big oil donations, research finds

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Student-led analyses raise concerns of conflict of interest at six universities, including Princeton, Columbia and Cornell

Prestigious US universities are raking in millions of dollars from fossil fuel interests, raising concerns about conflicts of interest. And one university even appears to have owned a petroleum company from which it has earned millions of dollars, according to a spate of new reports produced by student organizers.

Why unpaid US school lunch debt can prompt a call to child welfare services

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Around the US, policies empower school staff to view an unpaid food tab as proof of possible abuse

Earlier this year, administrators at South Mebane elementary in North Carolina sparked outrage – and a rushed community fundraising effort – after they issued a terse warning to parents in a school newsletter: students with lunch debt would not be allowed to attend an upcoming dance.

Ten children drew their favourite sea creatures. Then Australia’s leading artists responded – in pictures

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Ken Done, Jonathan Zawada, Blak Douglas and others created companion pieces to children’s works celebrating sharks and rays. They’re now on display at the Australian Museum

‘Australia’s next rabbit plague’: calls for feral deer in Victoria to be considered a pest instead of wildlife

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Victoria is home to perhaps the largest population and the only mainland state with ‘legislative relic’ of protections