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Some 70% of the World Heritage-listed Lord Howe Island has been closed to non-essential visitors in response to a recurrence of the plant disease myrtle rust.

Roxton, Bedfordshire: Whiter than a snow-white swan, a true egret in appearance, but its length makes it impossible to confuse with its diminutive cousins

Millions of dead fish float on the surface of the river. Native bony herring and introduced young carp, as well as a few mature Murray cod and golden perch. History is repeating on the Darling River at Menindee. This new fish kill is even worse than the enormous 2018–2019 fish…

Eating insects as a source or protein can help to protect the planet. Will children be open to it?

Dan Snow was speaking after the shark’s body was found by walkers on Lepe Beach in Hampshire.

Human life on Earth is utterly dependent on biodiversity but our activities are driving an increase in extinctions. Yet some extinct species continue to hold our fascination. New methods in genetics and reproductive biology hold the promise that de-extinction – resurrecting extinct species – could soon be possible.

Historian Dan Snow pleads for person to come forward who removed head from animal washed up on Lepe beach

A critically endangered stonefly could be the first to be protected under untested Victorian environmental laws passed in 2020.

Auckland Council has consented yet another helipad on Waiheke Island. That’s more than 60 on an island less than 20km long. Kim Whitaker of Quiet Sky Waiheke asks how has council got it so wrong?

Trophy hunters removed the head, tail and fin from the shark before scientists could study it

A hairdresser has spoken of how she tried to save a stranded rare shark which washed up on a UK beach before it was found dead the next day