Amazing photos show baby seal entangled in litter before snorkeler removes it in first for Lundy Island

A YOUNG female grey seal amazed the community on Lundy Island by allowing a snorkeller to get close enough to remove a plastic ring it was entangled in.
Warden of the island Beccy MacDonald said this was the first time she can recall a seal allowing a person to remove an entanglement.
Lesley Harper of Seastyle Diving came across the seal while snorkelling on a recent visit on charter boat Jessica Hettie.
Lesley said: “The seal suddenly appeared with this plastic ring wrapped around it. Luckily I managed to coax it off and stuff it in my pocket. The seal was acting like it was a toy.”

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SNAKE HAS A FROG IN MOUTH

A grass snake was trapped in a grating with a frogin its throat,it was saved by a passing local vet at Sidmouth by cutting it cut
  of grid well that was the idea untill the snake slipped free via lubricant,grass snakes eat-amphibians,sometimes mammals ,fish.

Hemp fibres 'better than graphene'

The waste fibres from hemp crops can be transformed into high-performance energy storage devices, scientists say.

They "cooked" cannabis bark into carbon nanosheets and built supercapacitors "on a par with or better than graphene" - the industry gold standard.
Electric cars and power tools could harness this hemp technology, the US researchers say.
They presented their work at the American Chemical Society meeting in San Francisco.
"People ask me: why hemp? I say, why not?" said Dr David Mitlin of Clarkson University, New York, who describes his device in the journal ACS Nano.
"We're making graphene-like materials for a thousandth of the price - and we're doing it with waste.
"The hemp we use is perfectly legal to grow. It has no THC in it at all - so there's no overlap with any recreational activities."
Secret sauce In countries including China, Canada and the UK, hemp can be grown industrially for clothing and building materials.
But the leftover bast fibre - the inner bark - typically ends up as landREAD MORE

SEAGULL -NOT THAT BAD

Yes i know seagulls can be a problem when scavenging scraps.But it is our fault for encouring them to ffed,i dot agree with spraying them with water -similar to riot
control.

Climate 'key driver' in European forest disturbances

Europe's forests have experienced increased disturbances throughout the 20th Century from wind, bark beetles and wildfires, a study has shown.

A team of European-based scientists identified climatic changes as a "key driver behind this increase".
However, they added, how the expected continuation of climate change would affect Europe's forests in the future remained unresolved.
The findings have been published online by the journal Nature Climate Change.
The researchers wrote: "Natural disturbances, that is, large pulses of tree mortality from agents such as wildfire, insect outbreaks or strong winds, are integral drivers of forest dynamics and contribute to the diversity and adaptive capacity of ecosystems."
But co-author Rupert Seidl from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna observed: "These disturbances have intensified considerably in recent decades, which increasingly challenges the sustainable management of forest ecosystems."
The authors said the frequency and severity of large wildfires had increased around the globe over the past decade.
They added: "In addition, recent bark beetle outbreaks, for example, in North A;READ MORE

Cfz-The Event

Weirdweekend is  coming upon us again, this year in Hartland for reasons I could not go into. As part of the annual cfz event iam doing a raines explains-a cartoon through a tablet app about the event in a part normal and part weird way. This is event number 2 for me, no don't need toilet paper, well not yet. It may have hiccups - weather, BT doing work that weekend, speakers running late, panic, mayhem but this is cfz and I find it normal. You may see me-i am the pirate look alike crutch in one hand, no parrot, not like Monty Python stretch, ie dead, dark glasses, tattoos, earrings, and a ex Essex old boring fart. So eat, drink, watch, debate, enjoy and remember the effort  for your enjoyment from the smallest cog to jon and Corinna Downes, who in my opinion deserve a gold bamboon, well a plastic one with gold spray paint , show starts soon

Raines explains

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