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What is a species? The most important concept in all of biology...
World’s island conifers threatened with extinction from climate...
A new study finds that climate change will put many conifer species native to small islands around...
In the remote Cambodian jungles, we made sure rare Siamese...
For nine hours, my colleague Michael Shackleton and I held onto our scooters for dear life while...
Coral reefs shifting away from equatorial waters
Coral reefs are retreating from equatorial waters and establishing new reefs in more temperate...
Declining fire threatens Serengeti ecosystem
A study of the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem led by University of Liverpool researchers has found that...
Bioaccumulation of methylmercury in wood frogs and spotted...
Mercury (Hg), and its more biologically available form, methylmercury (MeHg), are powerful...
The real Tinkerbell: don’t mess with these tiny fairy wasps
Have you ever seen a fairy? They exist, and may very well be in your garden. But you would need a...
How trees could save the climate
Around 0.9 billion hectares of land worldwide would be suitable for reforestation, which could...
Daylight robbery: how human-built structures leave coastal...
About half of the coastline of Europe, the United States and Australasia is modified by artificial...
Analysis finds U.S. ecosystems shifting hundreds of miles north
Whole ecosystems are shifting dramatically north in the Great Plains, a phenomenon likely linked to...
Academia can help humans and large carnivores coexist
Bears, wolves, lions and other top predators have a long history of conflict with people – they can...
Climate change: bees are disorientated by flowers’ changing...
Coffee, apples, honey – were it not for the precious work of pollinators, countless things that we...
Novel reproductive behaviours in amphibians
In this article, Laurence Jarvis (Head of Conservation at Froglife), takes a closer look at...
In defence of the wolf: this big bad animal is more prey than...
Wolves are returning to their former ranges across Europe and North America, resurrecting a...