Helen Briggs
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Journalist & broadcaster @BBCNews|Biodiversity, nature, science, health on 📺📻✍️|Escaped scientist|Alum @uniofnewcastle; @risj_oxford; @McrwritingSchl
Surrey via Lon, NE, NW
Joined February 2008
A pine marten detective story! They’re back in the New Forest but nobody knows how they got there. Our film for BBC TV.
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Interesting insights from BBC South West investigations team.
Beaver activists claim they are 'doing God's work'
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A little bit of good news
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Scientific evidence suggests ash trees are ‘fighting back’ against a deadly disease.
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Inside the mosquito lab tracking threats to wildlife
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The disease has spread great distances, with scientists racing to understand the risks.
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Dr Susannah Lydon: "The joy of fossil hunting is finding something nothing else has seen for millions of years,"
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The limestone rocks are full of ammonites, which experts believe are about 140 million years old.
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"The joy of fossil hunting is finding something nothing else has seen for millions of years.” Dr Susanh
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The limestone rocks are full of ammonites, which experts believe are about 140 million years old.
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A blob-headed fish and an amphibious mouse. Wowser…
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The expedition also found a new species of dwarf squirrel and 10 types of butterfly.
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Great story by @Vic_Gill - and why you should never run away from a polar bear 🐻❄️
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Climate change makes it trickier for Churchill's residents to co-exist with increasingly hungry predators
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What made a whale swim across three oceans?
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A humpback whale makes one of the longest and most unusual migrations ever recorded, raising alarm.
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‘The gap between the scientific warnings and action is enormous - and growing, based on evidence from the last two weeks’.
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Never heard of the corncrake? You’re not alone - but it is the most fascinating of birds
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The population of the endangered species has increased due to biodiversity supporting measures by the NTS.
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The nature COP ends with some disappointment - scientists ask why it’s taken a backseat to climate
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Representatives of 196 countries have been meeting in Cali, Colombia, as part of the COP biodiversity summit.
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RT @guyshrubsole: NEW: by the government's own admission, just 7.1% of England's land currently counts towards 30x30 - the govt's internati….
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Scientists tell me these statistics are ‘scary’
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Scientists have revealed that more than a third of tree species are facing extinction.
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Microplastics are everywhere - now found in dolphin breath. Scientists hope their findings will inspire people to reduce plastic consumption. New paper 👇
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Fantastic to be at the Natural History Museum on Monday night for an event to mark the UN Biodiversity summit next month. Massive things at stake, not least protecting 30% of the planet
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“ It’s a warning from nature as to how far down the track we’ve gone towards taking the resilience out of natural systems.” interesting take on butterfly crash @TonyJuniper speaking to @pgreenfielduk
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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
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