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Bird species are facing extinction hundreds of times faster than...
Mobile protected areas needed to protect biodiversity in the...
World leaders are currently updating the laws for international waters that apply to most of the...
Newly created embryo nourishes hope for the survival of the...
In December 2019 the team of scientists and conservationists repeated the egg collection from the...
HS2 – new report reveals exorbitant cost to nature
A new report published by The Wildlife Trusts today reveals, for the first time, the vast scale of...
Analysing DNA in soil could be an effective way of tracking...
Genetic material left behind by animals can provide critical clues to aid conservation and research...
Humanity’s footprint is squashing world’s wildlife
A new study says that the planet’s wildlife is increasingly under the boot of humanity. Using the...
Can an underwater soundtrack really bring coral reefs back to...
The ocean is a vast, quiet place, right? Vast, yes; quiet, not so much. As a researcher who studies...
Birds and bats have strange gut microbiomes—probably because...
At a time when kombucha is commonplace on cafe menus and “probiotic-fortified” has become the...
Bushfires have reshaped life on Earth before. They could do it...
The catastrophic bushfires raging across much of Australia have not only taken a huge human and...
Biodiversity and our brains: how ecology and mental health go...
Mental health in our cities is an increasingly urgent issue. Rates of disorders such as anxiety and...
How do conifers survive droughts? Study points to existing...
As the world warms, a new study is helping scientists understand how cone-bearing trees like pines...
Hunter, hunted: when the world catches on fire, how do predators...
2019 might well be remembered as the year the world caught fire. Some 2.9 million hectares of...
Berlin’s bright sky isn’t a bat’s thing
People can hardly imagine a city without night-time street lighting. But how do nocturnal animals...
Acidic oceans are corroding the tooth-like scales of shark skin
Shark skin might look perfectly smooth, but inspect it under a microscope and you’ll notice...