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The lungs of the city
Environment
Peter Shirley assesses the potential fallout from council budgets cuts and their possible impact on Birmingham's green and open spaces
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The blackbird should challenge the robins' Christmas monopoly.
Environment
There are about 5 million breeding pairs of blackbirds in this country, and by Christmas they will have been joined by up to five million individuals from Scandinavia and northern Europe.
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Could the West Midlands Combined Authority prioritise caring for the natural world?
Environment
When will we see the Minister for the Environment reviewing the state of the natural world and bringing forward ambitious plans for its improvement.
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Brownfield sites are the perfect pop-up for nature
Environment
The best of our brownfield sites have been described as 'Britain's rainforests' because of the variety of wildlife, rare and common, that colonises them.
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Bats are the other stars of the night sky
Black Country
Wild About Gardens Week, jointly organised by the Wildlife Trusts and the Royal Horticultural Society, focused its attention onto bats.
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The worrying decline in Hedgehog numbers
Environment
Rural Hedgehog populations are down by a half, and urban populations are down by a third.
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Worrying report is a stark warning to the state of our wildlife
Black Country
The nation's nature conservation organisations have published a worrying report on the overall health of our wildlife.
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Head-butted, punched, threatened with a sword... Who'd be a binman?
Employment
Local government correspondent Neil Elkes spent some time with Birmingham's waste collection teams and found it an eye-opening experience
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No satnav required for the Painted lady butterfly
Environment
Painted lady butterflies migrate every summer from Africa and southern Europe to the British Isles and beyond, sometimes reaching Iceland.
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Whispers in the Woods
Environment
As Andrea Leadsom's new brief includes support to farmers, currently delivered through the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), wildlife should perhaps be worried.
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Rolton Kilbride eyes Hams Hall for new energy centre
Engineering
Renewable plant would be able to produce electricity and heat to serve local businesses
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Artificial grass is flawless, flowerless and soulless
Environment
Garden lawns, which can be turned into mini-meadows, are now under threat from artificial grass.
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The Case of The Deer in The Night
Black Country
Suburbia, with its large gardens and quiet corners, seems to be good habitat for the Muntjac deer.
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Midland steel giant invests to bring back Scottish wind tower production
Engineering
Liberty House said the move takes forward its plans to build a fully-integrated steel and engineering business across the 海角视频
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How can the flowers of our open spaces be increased?
Black Country
The Birmingham and Black Country's Nature Improvement Area Partnership, led by the Wildlife Trust, has created 40 meadows in the conurbation.
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Power Minerals prepares for new dawn
Engineering
Sutton Coldfield ash reseller is eyeing new markets as closure of Rugeley Power Station signals end to coal-fired operations in West Midlands
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Random acts of wildness with the 30 Days Wild campaign
Black Country
The Wildlife Trusts are repeating last year's successful 30 Days Wild campaign in which thousands of people took part.
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Rugeley Power Station to close next month
Employment
Around 150 jobs will be lost after French owner ploughs on with plan to shut the West Midlands' last functioning power station
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All is not well with Butterfly conservation
Environment
More than half of the species monitored in the Butterfly Monitoring Scheme in 2015 declined, partly as a result of the very dry spring and cold and wet summer.
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Malta presents a great danger to the migrating bird population
Environment
Migratory species generally move south in the autumn and north in the spring. Their journeys take them across many countries, one of the smallest of which presents a great danger.
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How we can all chip in to help with nature conservation
Environment
Everyone as individuals can do much to help nature conservation, especially in respect of our local wildlife.
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What does a steel sector conservatorship need to be successful?
Engineering
David Bailey and Paul Forrest continue on from their earlier blog to look at what the government will need to do in order for a conservatorship to be successful.
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RSPB's Big Garden Birdwatch records change
Environment
This year nearly 520,000 people have recorded over eight and a quarter million birds in their gardens.
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Birmingham Post Power 250: Utilities and Telecoms
Severn Trent
The ten people listed as the most influential in the West Midlands from the world of utilities and telecoms
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