It’s been almost 90 days since Indian farmers began occupying Delhi’s arterial roads protesting three farm laws passed by India’s Parliament last September. The border regions surrounding the […]

Ending factory farms is good for animal welfare, public health, worker safety, and the environment. The post Why Ending Factory Farming Must Be Part of Biden’s Plan to Tackle America’s Biggest […]

Many Africans still don't understand scientists, or what they do. Scientists are widely seen as aloof and detached - a misperception has negatively impacted societal attitudes toward scientific […]

The Natural Resource Management (NRM) team and I have recently been working with landholders and local Aboriginal community members to conduct Aboriginal Cultural Values Impact Assessments as part of […]

In the wake of the pandemic, the world has much for which to thank Europe. Not only did European science lead the field in developing the first approved vaccine against COVID-19, but the EU's long […]

In recent years, European forests have suffered greatly from extreme climate conditions and their impacts. More than half of Europe's forests are potentially at risk from windthrow, forest fire, […]

Greenpeace International will carry out research in Seychelles' waters from February 27 to March 30 as part of an expedition within the Mascarene Plateau through which the island nation will learn […]

Marine protected areas (MPAs) surrounding O?ahu do not sufficiently safeguard populations of herbivorous reef fishes that tend to eat algae present on coral reefs.

Zoonotic diseases or zoonoses are animal infections that people can catch. Viruses, bacteria, parasites, and fungi transmitted by animals to other animals like pets, and people, can produce mild to […]

They may seem harmless at first glance but the North American red-eared slider turtle is spreading across Sydney's water basins and threatens the biosecurity of our native turtle populations.

Single-celled algae and animal sperm cells are widely separated in evolution but both swim in the same way, by waving their protruding hairs, called cilia or flagella.

Because walleyes are a cool-water fish species with a limited temperature tolerance, biologists expected them to act like the proverbial "canary in a coal mine" that would begin to suffer and signal […]

More than 50 wildlife experts, politicians and celebrities have signed a letter to Boris Johnson demanding tougher action on nature loss. The UK prime minister's father, Stanley, is among signatories […]

Nature is full of diversity, but underneath the differences are often shared features. Researchers from Japan investigating diversity in plant features have discovered that plant root tips commonly […]

Land-use changes in the western Himalayan forests, a global biodiversity hotspot with huge numbers of endemic species, have resulted in a massive decline in forest birds in the region, new research […]

Behind a heavily armoured Turkish military vehicle on patrol near the Syrian border, mountain gazelles give chase in a spectacular display, reaching speeds as fast as 80km per hour.

Stanley Johnson among group of high profile campaigners calling for government to set a legally-binding nature protection target ahead of pivotal COP15 UN nature talks

In 1993, a lone stream frog was discovered once but never found again in the wild. Herpetologists thought the frog species went extinct before it could be studied. Then, last year, more than a […]

Rutgers scientists for the first time have pinpointed the sizes of microplastics from a highly urbanized estuarine and coastal system with numerous sources of fresh water, including the Hudson River […]

Extreme weather patterns and flooding worsened by climate change are adversely affecting the health of babies born in the Amazon rainforest.

A Brazilian study published in Nature Communications shows that human activities have directly or indirectly caused biodiversity and biomass losses in over 80% of the remaining Atlantic Rainforest […]

Jinotega - Maria Gonzalez knows that growing coffee in Nicaragua's northern mountains - as she has done since she was a little girl - gets harder and harder each year.

Biologists have identified fundamental mechanisms in visual information processing in fruit flies.The exquisite capability of insects to detect color and to distinguish for instance flowers is […]

As temperatures rise due to global warming, the need to protect plants from stressful conditions has increased, as stress can cause a loss in yield and cause further impact economically. A consortium […]

The only sure path to stop climate change is to zero out greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible. That's it. As simple as this sounds, it's going to be an enormous job, requiring hard work over […]

Picture this: you're in your backyard gardening when you get that strange, ominous feeling of being watched. You find a gray oval-shaped ball about the size of a thumb, filled with bones and fur-a […]

As the planet warms, scientists expect that mountain snowpack should melt progressively earlier in the year. However, observations in the U.S. show that as temperatures have risen, snowpack melt is […]

University of Saskatchewan (USask) researcher Doug Clark is launching a first-of-its-kind research project that will engage citizen volunteers to help advance knowledge about polar bear behavior by […]

Land stores vast amounts of carbon, but a new study led by Cranfield University's Dr. Alice Johnston suggests that how much of this carbon enters the atmosphere as temperatures rise depends on how […]

New research from the University of Aberdeen could pave the way for the development of drugs and vaccines to treat a disease that is rapidly emerging in wild and farmed fish in the UK, Europe and […]