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Watch: Giant spider web envelops coastline of Greek lake

Spiders have been keeping busy at Lake Vistonida in north-eastern Greece. Over the last few days large webs, spreading for hundreds of meters across the lake's coastline, have blanketed the entire landscape. The trees and shrubs have been completely wrapped in spooky grey webs.

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Girl rescues shark stranded off Rhode Island coast

A girl picked up a stranded shark with her bare hands and released it back into the ocean at Block Island, off the coast of Rhode Island.

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Whale watchers have close encounter with feeding humpback whales

Passengers on board a whale watching boat were treated to a close encounter with a pod of humpback whales in Monterey Bay on July 13.

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Diver and shark enthusiast skilfully removes hook from shark jaw

A Florida-based British marine biologist, Leigh Cobb, managed to dislodge a hook from the jaw of an endangered oceanic white tip shark in astonishing feet captured on video.

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Plastic chokes Vietnam's shoreline

There's almost more plastic than sand on this long, tree-lined beach: Plastic helmets, furniture and the plastic leg of a shop mannequin all stand out of an ocean of blue plastic bags.

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Saving the urban bees in Berlin

This is the Berlin Cathedral, one of the most iconic buildings in the German capital.

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Berlin responds to crayfish plague: If you can't beat them, eat them

North American crayfish that spilled en masse into Berlin's parks last summer will soon be appearing in the city's restaurants after its government authorised fishermen to remove them from public ponds.

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Rare Pallas cats debut at Chester Zoo

Four rare felines, known as the "world's fluffiest cats" have a new home at Chester Zoo, in the north of England.

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Australian state launches Koala protection initiative

Australia's New South Wales state government announced that thousands of hectares of land would be set aside as part of measures to protect koalas from being wiped out.

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Take a look around Patagonia's biggest penguin colony

Take a look around the largest Magellanic penguin colony in Patagonia, Argentina.

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Reindeer herd in Sweden starts moving uphill for the summer

It has been a long winter with lots of snow. The reindeer herd are now, towards the end of April, ready to move uphill, to their summer pasture.

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Five penguins go back into the wild in Australia

Penguins recover after zoo treatment to return home.

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Butterflies flutter at the Natural History Museum in London

London's Natural History museum has come alive with an estimated 60 species of butterflies from the Americas, Asia and Africa as "Sensational Butterflies" returns for 2018.

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Fluttering butterflies take over San Diego Zoo

Thousands of butterflies floated and fluttered around an aviary at the San Diego Zoo on Friday March 9th For the opening of the zoo's annual butterfly jungle.

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Two Iberian lynx released in Portugal

The Portuguese Forestry and Nature Conservation Institute (ICNF) released on Friday two Iberian Lynx, in Guadiana Valley Natural Park, Serpa.

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Endangered sea turtles lay eggs on Indian beach

Turtle lovers gathered at the Rushikulya beach in India's eastern Odisha state on Saturday to witness the annual nocturnal mass nesting of Olive Ridley turtles

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Stranger Things' David Harbour in Antarctica with penguins

David Harbour, who plays police chief Jim Hopper on Netflix series Stranger Things danced with the penguins in Antarctica on Valentine's Day to raise awareness into the environmental challenges facing this part of the world

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Cameroon: the treasures of "Africa in miniature"

In this edition of Focus, we are off to Cameroon, to discover the incredible diversity of this country, described by many as “Africa in Miniature”.

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Fish in a new climate

Will oysters be able to survive climate change and the expected rise of water temperatures in seas and oceans across the globe?

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Takeaway: Fish & climate

Do you like carp… yes or no?