20 March 2023
Habitat and hunting protections have helped orca numbers rebound globally, but a group in the North Pacific Ocean is still shrinking – probably because it is isolated from other populations
18 January 2023
Two eggs laid by a pair of nesting bald eagles in California are the latest symbol of success for the once-imperiled species
25 July 2018
It’s an error to think we’ve got bigger problems than extinction. We must take species loss seriously, or it will come back to haunt us
25 July 2018
Earth’s biodiversity isn’t just beautiful, it ensures human survival. But to protect nature’s bounty we first need to know exactly how we’re harming it
14 June 2018
Dozens of species all around the world are abandoning the day and becoming more active at night, to avoid contact with humans
14 June 2018
The European Union will make only minor tweaks to “renewable” energy policies that are actually increasing greenhouse gas emissions and driving deforestation
12 June 2018
Britain only has 58 wild mammal species to start with, and many have declined sharply in number since 1995 – with hedgehogs suffering a particularly severe fall
11 June 2018
In the past decade most of the oldest baobabs, many of them sprouted over two millennia ago, have died unexpectedly and few new ones are sprouting
21 May 2018
Researchers spent four years looking for Chinese giant salamanders and only found 24 – and that’s not even the worst bit of news
17 May 2018
The world’s nations have set up 200,000 protected areas in which nature is supposed to flourish, but in many cases the protection is pretty much theoretical
