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Efforts are continuing to free a whale which has become entangled in a rope at a fish farm off the Isle of Skye.

Rescuers are attempting to help the humpback, which got into difficulty at a fish farm near Rigg.

A PIONEERING rewilding site has seen its native woodlands almost double over the past 30 years – with new species of animals spotted in the area…

Populations have been falling for decades, even in tracts of forest undamaged by humans. Experts have spent two decades trying to understand what is going on

Before species go extinct, their populations often shrink and become isolated. Healthy populations tend to have a large gene pool with many genetic variants circulating. But the path to extinction erodes genetic diversity, because a species’ gene pool shrinks as the population declines. Losing genetic diversity limits the ability of…

Blood flow in the toes of wandering salamanders helps them to glide over the tops of redwood trees

Back in 2016, one of us (Silviu Petrovan) was asked to identify a live frog found in a shipment of roses in Sheffield, England. It certainly wasn’t any species found in Europe: Silviu thought he had been pranked.

The climate crisis is impacting the genetic diversity that helps species adapt to environmental changes

Analysis by dozens of scientists internationally notes urgent conservation efforts could halt or even reverse losses