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Get the drop on COP
COP26 is nearly upon us, having been delayed from 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. You may have heard it referenced in the news or even in passing on the street, but the name gives little away.…

Watch out… there’s mink about!
With autumn just around the corner, we are now entering the American mink dispersal season.

Survival strategies
Discover the different ways that moths and butterflies spend the winter

Birds of prey
Few birds inspire awe as often as birds of prey, those athletic aerial predators that rule the roost when it comes to the food chain.
'Terning' heads at the North Shields marina
Over recent summers, a thriving colony of one of our most graceful seabirds, the common tern, has become established in the heart of a busy marina on the banks of the River Tyne in urban North…

Cetaceans of the North Sea - Who is swimming off the North East coast?
We only really have four regularly occurring species of cetacean (whales, dolphins, porpoises) in the north east; bottlenose dolphin, white-beaked dolphin, minke whale and harbour porpoise. The…

If we don’t have a healthy ocean, we don’t have a healthy planet...
“With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.” – Dr Sylvia Earle

Meet the tompot blenny - ‘The small fish with a big personality’
Marine wildlife expert Paul Naylor dives into the world of one of his favourite fish

On an 'en-dolphin' rush
It's so exciting, I’m on an ‘en-dolphin’ rush! I’d just finished a video about National Marine week standing on the foreshore as the tide receded. As I glanced round, there they were, two…

Water voles in the Uplands
Naturally Native Project Officer Emily Marshall, takes a look at water voles in the Uplands and how these special areas are providing a refuge for Britain's fastest declining mammal.