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A recent study has found that soil is home to 59% of all life on Earth, from an insect feeding on the soil surface to a tiny microbe nestled in a soil pore. This discovery crowns soil as the most biodiverse habitat on the planet.

If you’ve ever felt underestimated and ignored, spare a thought for your local moths. Honeybees, bumblebees and butterflies are almost synonomous with pollination. People love them for their intimate relationship with flowers – we can’t grow a lot of our food or enjoy the sight of fragile springtime blossom without…

According to NCBS, bees pollinate nearly 35% of our food crops, thus providing essential ecosystem services that are crucial for our food security. With over half the world’s human population residing in Asia, achieving food security in the region is a major challenge, especially as contemporary habitat loss and global…

Why did it have to be snakes?

The Indiana Jones actor described the reptile’s naming – Tachymenoides harrisonfordi – as ‘humbling’

Stanhope, Weardale, County Durham: Out on a walk, I dust off my identification skills for some tricky grassland toadstools

The findings provide the first ever evidence of migratory bats feeding on migratory insects while both are migrating, researchers say.

About 275 bird species, including two critically endangered, four vulnerable ones and two endangered species, were counted during the bird survey at Corbett Tiger Reserve in Nainital

A new species of salamander — the Tylototriton zaimeng — has been recorded in the Zaimeng Lake within the Koubru Forest Division in Kangpokpi district of Manipur