Love them or hate them, slugs are on the menu this week (not to eat, I hasten to add for our vegan and veggie friends). Yes, an extremely rare species of sea slug—or nudibranch called Babakina anadoni for those budding zoologists out there—has been recorded in UK waters for the first time.

Measuring a whopping 2 centimeters long, the multi-coloured nudibranch was spotted and captured on camera by Seasearch volunteer Allen Murray near Melledgan—an uninhabited rock island in the Isles of Scilly.

A member of the aeolid nudibranch family, this particular variant has only been recorded several times along the west coast of Spain and in a few other places in the Atlantic, but never in UK waters, according to the Cornwall Wildlife Trust and the Isles of Scilly Wildlife Trust.

In a time where we feel like the amount of biodiversity gracing our land and sea is ever decreasing, this feels like a much needed win for an under-appreciated slimy friend!

At more than two million years old and more than a mile above sea level, Lake Tahoe sits on the border of California and Nevada in the Northern Sierra Nevada mountains, USA. Now we love a good Buxton water in the office here at Ubuntu HQ, but the water from Lake Tahoe is apparently so pure that it isn’t even required to be filtered by water suppliers. Pretty impressive.

While the water quality of the lake is on point however, its litter program isn’t. To tackle the issue, California nonprofit Clean Up the Lake organized volunteer scuba divers to remove litter and household waste from the lake’s entire 72-mile shoreline. The divers recovered more than 11,000 kilograms of debris that included engagement rings, Nikon cameras from the 1980s, large pieces of boats, lampposts, wallets and the usual contender, plastic bottles.

According to Clean Up the Lake, 24,797 items were removed in total. A great result for a site of natural beauty but another reminder of how far we have to go with our waste management.