Research released today (Monday 27 January) from the University of Sussex, funded by bird charity SongBird Survival, has found high levels of harmful chemicals from pet flea treatment in birds' nests ...

The erosion threshold of sand-mud mixtures is investigated by analyzing the momentum balance of a sand particle or a mud parcel in the mixture bed surface, and a formula for the critical shear stress ...

A close-up-shot-of a barn-swallow-sitting in a ... over 2 months to build a new nest, around 1,200 journeys to painstakingly carry one tiny ball of mud at a time in their beaks and then carefully ...

Welcome swallows (Hirundo neoxena) have been building mud nests in the dugout for many years and would have been surprised by the obstruction but have got around it by flying straight through the 20cm ...

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28, crews were called to a farm to help rescue a horse that was stuck in mud and “too exhausted to ... pulled to safety and brought back to the barn.

Japanese emergency services struggled for hours on Tuesday to rescue the driver of a truck that plunged into a massive sinkhole near Tokyo. Authorities in Yashio City, Saitama, received calls ...

A sinkhole estimated to be the size of a large swimming pool swallowed a truck and its driver as it opened up in the middle of a busy intersection in Japan, according to multiple reports citing ...

The driver of the truck was “initially conscious and capable of talking,” reports local news outlet The Mainichi, and has been trapped in the driver’s seat under mud and sand. Two rescuers ...

Authorities say the driver, a man, was in communication with firefighters. TOKYO -- An oval-shaped pit suddenly formed on a busy road in Yashio, Japan, on Tuesday, taking down a truck and trapping ...