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Biologists and animal rights activists have called for a temporary halt to fishing off the French Atlantic coast as hundreds of fatally injured dolphins wash up on the nation's beaches.

When William the Conqueror surveyed his new kingdom in 1086, from lowland to upland, Britain was covered with trees. In low-lying Yorkshire, the East Anglian Fens and the Somerset Levels, wet woods of tall white willows and alders lined great rivers. On windswept highlands in the Pennines, north Yorkshire and…

Sunlit coral reefs are perhaps the most famous marine habitat and many people will have snorkelled over or dived down to one at some point. Home to a quarter of all known ocean life, these “rainforests of the ocean” have been at the forefront of marine research for decades and…

The federal government is reinstating restrictions on road-building and logging on the country’s largest national forest in southeast Alaska

CHICAGO — The fight to preserve Bell Bowl Prairie in Rockford, Illinois, where federally endangered rusty patched bumblebees have been found, ramped up this week, with environmentalists saying they intend to return to federal court.

Increase in reports of the koel and its loud mating call south of its usual territory may be attributable to climate change, scientists say

Calls for mandatory measures to reduce underwater noise pollution as melting ice opens up shipping routes

Researchers report that elephants play a key role in creating forests which store more atmospheric carbon and maintaining the biodiversity of forests in Africa. Read full story on Dynamite News:

Broom, Bedfordshire: These exhilarating finches are quite something to watch, with their whirring wings and showboating glides

Scientific examination of servings of fish and chips has uncovered a finding that might set some people's teeth on edge — various threatened species of shark being marketed as "flake".

Scientists claim that wolves have recently turned to sea otters as their primary prey.