The BBC nature presenter Chris Packham has joined hundreds of environmental activists in a mock funeral procession for nature to spotlight biodiversity loss in the…
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Food, soil, water: how the extinction of insects would transform our planet
Cut an apple in half, and the white flesh reveals a cluster of black pips arranged in the shape of a star. It is a…
View More Food, soil, water: how the extinction of insects would transform our planet‘Mutilating the tree of life’: Wildlife loss accelerating, scientists warn
Groups of animal species are vanishing at a rate 35 times higher than average due to human activity, according to researchers, who say it is…
View More ‘Mutilating the tree of life’: Wildlife loss accelerating, scientists warn‘You sometimes feel like Noah’: the London zoo team bidding to save doomed species
News that a Socorro dove in London Zoo had produced a hatchling two weeks ago provoked joyous celebrations among conservationists. Zenaida graysoni is extinct in…
View More ‘You sometimes feel like Noah’: the London zoo team bidding to save doomed speciesBear-clawed cavern discovered in Spain ‘opens new door on prehistory’
Researchers exploring a cave system in south-east Spain have discovered a huge cavern, sealed off for millennia, hung with huge stalactites and gouged by the…
View More Bear-clawed cavern discovered in Spain ‘opens new door on prehistory’Life will find a way: could scientists make Jurassic Park a reality?
What Alida Bailleul saw through the microscope made no sense. She was examining thin sections of fossilised skull from a young hadrosaur, a duck-billed, plant-eating…
View More Life will find a way: could scientists make Jurassic Park a reality?Plants humans don’t need are heading for extinction, study finds
Researchers have categorised more than 80,000 plant species worldwide and found that most of them will “lose” in the face of humanity – going extinct…
View More Plants humans don’t need are heading for extinction, study findsRewilding: should we bring the lynx back to Britain?
The maverick rewilder Derek Gow is wearing an extremely small pair of coral pink shorts as he introduces his three new Eurasian lynxes. He looks…
View More Rewilding: should we bring the lynx back to Britain?Well-preserved 28,000-year-old lion cub found in Siberian permafrost
Scientists have said that an astonishingly well-preserved cave lion cub found in Siberia’s permafrost lived 28,000 years ago and may even have traces of its…
View More Well-preserved 28,000-year-old lion cub found in Siberian permafrostAustralia confirms extinction of 13 more species, including first reptile since colonisation
The Australian government has officially acknowledged the extinction of 13 endemic species, including 12 mammals and the first reptile known to have been lost since…
View More Australia confirms extinction of 13 more species, including first reptile since colonisation