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In the last 50 years, 38 million birds have vanished from UK skies - and 97 per cent of our wildflower meadows have been lost since the 1930s

Imagine … eco-tourists enjoying views of undisturbed whales and dolphins, watching them doing what comes naturally.

The critically endangered bulloak jewel butterfly is only found in pockets of Queensland's Southern Downs. Conservationists who have been working to protect it are delighted by an increase in the population.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — She called it cute, the microscopic single-celled organism on her microscope slide. She said she liked its little hairs, and the way it swam beneath her lens. Looking through her microscope, Mya Breitbart found one of the ciliates — this type of single-celled creature — and…

Scientists have found the source of a mysterious outbreak that killed sea urchins across the Caribbean last year

As recently as December 2022, 196 countries signed an agreement promising to “live in harmony with nature” by 2050 and to “halt and reverse biodiversity loss” by 2030.

"It was cutting right into her neck so she probably couldn’t feed. She was quite thin"

Rod Saunders and wife Rachel, who were world-renowned botanists, were found dead while on a trip to a remote region of South Africa in 2018.

Andy Schmid managed to swim away from the mouth of a giant humpback whale that appeared out of nowhere in a crazy near-miss moment off the coast of Skjverøy in Norway