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Exclusive: Ancient oaks ‘as precious as stately homes’ could receive stronger legal safeguards under new proposals

Heavy metals including lead have been found below a childcare centre as its provider insists the risk of exposure to children and staff is low.

Consecutive and severe bleaching is ‘fundamentally changing’ nature of reef, the International Coral Reef Society says

Climate change-fuelled ocean warming and floods have been bleaching corals in the World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef.

In one Nepali village, the resident rhinos are a conservation success story and attract thousands of visitors, but attacks on humans are on the rise

Scientists call for urban areas to be tested for contaminants and potentially cleaned before wildflowers are planted

Frome, Somerset: In the woods, a chive-like scent hangs in the air – it’s ramsons, or, for good reason, bear’s garlic

Kashmir’s saffron farmers are losing 30 percent of their crop to the rodents as deforestation pushes them into farms.

The sector, which had been set a target to reduce spillages by 40%, needs ‘radical reform’, campaigners say

Queensland is widely known as the land clearing capital of Australia. But what’s not so well known is many of the cleared trees can grow back naturally.

The colossal squid was first described in 1925 based on specimens from the stomach of a commercially hunted sperm whale. A century later, an international voyage captured the first confirmed video of this species in its natural habitat – a 30-centimetre juvenile, at a depth of 600 metres near the…