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Back in 2016, one of us (Silviu Petrovan) was asked to identify a live frog found in a shipment of roses in Sheffield, England. It certainly wasn’t any species found in Europe: Silviu thought he had been pranked.

The climate crisis is impacting the genetic diversity that helps species adapt to environmental changes

More than 2,500 native trees have been planted to form a temperate rainforest in decades to come

Tens of thousands of fish have died off northwestern Australia, as a large and long-lasting marine heatwave intensifies.

Behaviour of ‘remarkable predators’ also seen off coast of South Africa could affect ecosystem, researchers say

A miles-long cluster of dolphins was filmed leaping, gliding and cavorting their way across Carmel Bay on the central coast of California

Coral reef research has focused on the twin evils birthed by record-high greenhouse gas emissions: warming oceans and increasingly acidic seawater. These global threats are caused by seawater absorbing the excess heat and carbon dioxide that fossil fuel burning has added to the atmosphere. But there is another consequence that…

Baby shark Yoko hatched in early January, flummoxing staff and experts at a US aquarium

A marine heatwave has caused "catastrophic" damage to the Great Barrier Reef but another region is also suffering the impacts of rising ocean temperatures.