1 week ago More than beautiful: the beloved monarch butterfly is one of the world’s great migrators

The hardy travellers can fly for 3,000 miles from the north-east US and Canada to roost in their millions in MexicoMore invertebrate of the year nominationsImagine your body was the weight of a raisin, supported by just a pair of flimsy, gossamer wings. Now imagine that you had to fly for 3,000 miles, avoiding storms, highways and predators, to ensure your species continued.Could you do it? Unless you’re a monarch butterfly, fortunately you won’t have to face such a challenge.Between 24 March and 2 April, we will be profiling a shortlist of 10 of the invertebrates chosen by readers and selected by our wildlife writers from more than 2,500 nominations. The voting for our 2025 invertebrate of the year will run from midday on Wednesday 2 April until midday on Friday 4 April, and the winner will be announced on Monday 7 April. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Man travels 1,000 miles from Cornwall to Scotland and back for dentist appointment

‘In Glasgow you can walk straight into an NHS dentist to get treatment’

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3 w. ago Hatate vents frustration, loan star scores for country and Lennon sees red carpet rolled out – Celtic news bulletin

Hatate travelled 9,000 miles just to be an unused sub for his country

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3 w. ago I travelled 2,000 miles from Italy to the tip of Spain – on horseback

I had to brave wolves, bitter weather and mountain passes during my epic journey, but it was transformativeBefore riding a horse across the Ligurian Alps in north-west Italy, I had never heard the phrase “in bocca al lupo” (into the wolf’s mouth). An idiom of good luck, in the same vein as saying “break a leg” to a performer, the words passed the lips of almost every stranger I met. As we travelled through these little-known mountains, the message began to take on a whole other meaning: a call to embrace the unknown, wolves and all.I was on an ambitious journey – from Siena in Tuscany roughly 2,000 miles to the north-west tip of Spain at Finisterre, which literally means “the end of the earth”. I thought that a perfect place to finish. The idea came while working in London as a stable boy and (out of work) actor. Restless and desperate for a sense of purpose, I came across a copy of Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes’s 17th-century picaresque adventure. It lit my imagination and a que...

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3 w. ago Moment Channel 4's school swap experiment leaves British teens gobsmacked over massive discovery about US homes

In the latest episode of Channel 4 's Class Apart: The Great US School Swap, pupils travelled more than 4,000 miles for an exchange programme between schools in London and Arkansas.

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4 w. ago Endo the Battle: The Scottish patients 'so desperate' they've travelled 2,000 miles for endometriosis care

It takes on average eight years and 10 months for an endometriosis diagnosis in Scotland 🚨

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