Over the last 50 years, wildlife populations have experienced a staggering 73% decline. The latest findings from the World ...

Communicating the vital role of freshwater ecosystems, from mountain-tops-bogs and peat uplands, rivers and lakes to deltas, floodplains, marshes and mangroves. Images can be powerful through their ...

While the new fossils are not from fully grown Arthropleura, some of which reached 2.6 metres long, they reveal important ...

Canadian Marine Conservation Photojournalist, Shane Gross, was awarded Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2024 for his image ...

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The Grand Title award for Wildlife Photographer of the Year 60 has gone to Shane Gross for his captivating image of ribbons of tadpoles swimming through a pond. In The Swarm of Life, a drove of ...

I’m a biologist who works with ancient and degraded DNA to investigate species-level and evolutionary processes. I am a researcher in the Earth Sciences Department and I manage the NHM ancient DNA ...

Every species extinction is bad, but the impacts are worse when we consider the ecosystem functions that are also lost.

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Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas (Germany) carefully rolls over a log in his local forest to see fruiting bodies of slime mould and a ...