STAFF at an animal sanctuary have turned to massage to deal with a prickly problem — a hedgehog suffering from baldness.... After 30 days of medicine — and some indulging over Christmas to bulk Alan up a little — they began daily rub-downs with soothing aloe vera gel.... And now they are seeing the point of their all hard work....

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Burning wood pellets for power has become a bigger emitter of carbon dioxide in the UK than coal, according to new analysis. The UK is one of the world’s biggest users of biomass for energy, mostly made up of wood pellets burned in converted coal power plants. The Government provides around ￡1 billion in subsidies for the energy, which is classed as renewable under an EU law now carried over into UK legislation. The renewable classification is given on the basis that the wood comes from sustaina

No one died in the fires." We have to make it in time for the winter.... " I've been really thinking of leaving.... " WAKE-UP CALLAn EU atmosphere monitor has said that the Mediterranean has become a wildfire hotspot as human-induced climate change makes heatwaves more likely and more severe....

A campaign to restore Britain’s lost rainforests has won backing from the Government in its post-Brexit plans for the countryside. Around 20 per cent of Britain has a climate wet and warm enough for the creation of temperate rainforest, recognised by their abundance of mosses, lichens and epiphytes-plants that grow on other plants and are sustained by the amount of moisture in the air. But only around 1 per cent of the country is still home to this “ green cathedral ”, according to Guy Shrubsole

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The world’s thinnest spaghetti has been invented by chemists who hope to weave it into breathable bandages. University College London has created pasta strands from flour which are 372 nanometres wide, about 200 times thinner than a human hair. They used a technique called “ electrospinning ” in which threads of flour and water are pulled through the eye of a needle using an electric charge.Dr Adam Clancy said: “ To make spaghetti, you push a mixture of water and flour through metal holes.... I

Ice in the Arctic has been rapidly shrinking in recent decades, covering a considerably smaller area than it did in the early Eighties.... And with the threat of climate change still not eliminated, scientists are desperate to know whether the region's year-round ice will survive the onslaught of rising temperatures.... A team of researchers at Columbia University in the US fears a one million-square-kilometre section of thick ice in the polar north could vanish in the next 80 years.In a study