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How aluminum foil can protect your hummingbirds.

Researchers at a Michigan State University facility dedicated to protecting honey bees are enlisting a four-legged ally to sniff out danger to the prized pollinators

It's hoped a $28 million funding package will help resolve an unprecedented environmentally disastrous algal bloom that's killing thousands of sea creatures.

Conservationists say Canvey Wick in Essex shows potential for brownfield sites as havens for nature

Yes, they can be hard to spot – but this find in Australia highlights how little we know about creatures crucial to our ecosystem, writes entomologist Gwen Pearson

Prof Miles Richardson says people risk ‘extinction of experience’ in the natural world without new policies

The powerful sounds made by blue whales help them communicate with partners or signal the discovery of abundant food.

Beneath the turquoise waters of Vanuatu, amid a graveyard of broken coral, a moray eel peers from the branches of a staghorn colony. Nearby, the feathered arms of a yellow sea lily sway in the current and a turtle grazes on algae growing along the reef. These flickers of life…

Researchers say distinct frequency is ‘great news’ as it will allow their nests to be located with greater ease

Sightings confirmed in County Durham and Suffolk as southern small white flutters in from European mainland

Wildlife experts warn huge facility on the Valdés peninsula in Patagonia could be devastating for ‘a treasure chest of wildlife’