7,500 educational settings now taking part in the free National Education Nature Park programme ...

New analysis shows that the vast majority of the areas we depend on for our survival aren’t being well looked after.

Measured against the landmark “30by30” pledge to protect 30% of land by 2030 (agreed at biodiversity COP15), Brazil is tracking well - already achieving a high level of spatial protection above 30% ...

This is because the new analysis of the craniums also puts the Denisovans as the most closely related extinct human species to our own lineage. Therefore, if the Denisovans split off over a million ...

A groundbreaking new study suggests that Homo sapiens could have begun to emerge over one million years ago - pushing back our species’ origins by some 400,000 years compared with genetic estimates.

As Arctic winter warming events become more common, researchers are witnessing the melting landscape first-hand.

Leading seaweed scientists from Malaysia and the UK and officials from the Department of Fisheries Sabah are meeting with more than 50 stakeholders this week to propose a new Progressive Management ...

A new sensor network using AWS technology will collect live data making the Museum gardens the most intensively studied urban nature site of its kind in the world Alongside thriving wildlife, the ...

Developed by NHM researchers, the BII is widely recognised as the most scientifically robust measure of ecosystem health. The BII tracks how biodiversity in terrestrial ecosystems is affected by human ...

Scientists have uncovered new evidence that woolly mammoths and Columbian mammoths repeatedly interbred in North America, reshaping our understanding of how these Ice Age giants evolved in response to ...

Fun, free things to do in a park, on the street, or anywhere outdoors.

The Tasmanian tiger, Thylacinus cynocephalus, was driven to extinction by European colonisers who hunted it, destroyed its habitat and introduced competing species. These practices still affect ...