Nature
-
Salmon returning to river Elbe
Fisherman Ladislav Mervinsky was dumbstruck when he caught a salmon - over a metre in length - in the river Elbe (Labe) close to the Czech-German border in north Bohemia…
-
Heatwave followed by floods
After July's tropical heat most people welcomed the first August showers with relief. But several days of persistent rain have produced a different problem - a wave of…
-
Helping the rare Przewalski horse return to the wild
Since the early 1970s the rare Przewalski horse of the Mongolian steppes - a stocky, shorter-legged relative of the domestic horse - was classified as "extinct in the wild…
-
Prague citizens struggle to cope with extreme temperatures
Many parts of Europe have been hit by a heat wave and the Czech Republic is no exception, with record temperatures recorded in different parts of the country this week…
-
Here comes the sun!
Prague is wilting. Although summer is short and precious in this part of the world the present heat-wave with temperatures around 33 degrees Celsius appears to be more…
-
Czech Republic to have more primeval forests
Virgin - or primeval - forests are rare in this part of the world where logging and tourism have taxed Nature to a considerable extent. Now there are efforts to try and…
-
Precious orchid meadows plundered by thieves
There aren't many places in the Czech Republic where you would find orchids growing in the wild. A protected nature reserve in Orlicke hory is one of them. It boasts two…
-
Temperatures rising, but are summers really not what they used to be?
The mercury's rising here in the Czech Republic, with maximum daytime temperatures sitting comfortably at 30 degrees Celsius for days on end, and thunderstorms becoming a…
-
Bear population gradually returning to Beskydy Mountains
The Czech Union for Nature Conservation has been monitoring the role and presence of beasts of prey for some twenty years now. In the last few years, it has discovered…
-
Hunting dinosaurs in Mongolia
In less than a month's time, a team of Czech scientists will leave for the Mongolian desert of Gobi to spend a month at a rich fossil location looking for the remains of…
-
The tragic story of the disappearing giraffes
Thirty-one years ago last weekend, in the small Czech town of Dvur Kralove, a whole herd of giraffes was shot. Nobody was ever told why. This sounds like the opening of a…
-
Mosquitoes and disease are new concerns as floodwaters drain
Floods threatened homes throughout the Czech Republic during much of March and April. Now the water is subsiding, but authorities are concerned about another possible…
Pages
- « první
- ‹ předchozí
- …
- 48
- 49
- 50
- 51
- 52
- 53
- 54
- 55
- 56
- následující ›
- poslední »