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ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, Colo. — At a high alpine lake here, researchers with clipboards and pens are conducting painstaking surveys that may be essential for saving butterflies and other insects from extinction.

The animals have flourished through feeding and breeding and will be seeking refuge as temperatures fall - here's how to keep them away

U.S. officials are proposing to list the tricolored bat as endangered

Built in the 1980s, the Balbina Dam is one of dozens of large dams across rivers in the Amazon Basin. Such dams might leave behind seemingly green patches of forest, but our new research has shown these disconnected patches of forest are no longer able to support thriving ecosystems.

Today I learned cockatoos are smarter than people from Sydney.

All recreational and commercial beehives within an eradication zone around Coffs Harbour on NSW's north coast will be destroyed in the latest bid to contain the spread of varroa mite.

Durham Wildlife Trust, which managers the pond, says that the main cause of the pond being dry is a lack of rainfall, though a sluice gate had been "altered by a third party"

Dead gannets have been found on beaches and harbours around Ireland, with an expert calling for "urgent action" on the "awful" situation posing a real biosecurity threat

Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk: Like our own fledglings, young barn owls are striking out on their own, with mixed success