The Latest Breaking News on Nature

The International Union for Conservation of Nature said hedgehog numbers are thought to have shrunk in more than half the countries where they live.

The Endangered Species Act is a generally useful thing. It's protected loads of animals, bugs, and other critters from going extinct since its inception that otherwise would not have been protected. And the way that it succeeded in keeping multiple species alive should be applauded. 

The island’s birds are known for their different behaviour to their mainland counterparts – but it’s not clear what’s behind it

A special kind of beauty contest featuring bats kicked off in the lead-up to Halloween

While young people experience increasing levels of eco-anxiety, an eminent Australian psychiatrist says working in the environment can be a powerful antidote.

Nature protection, conservation and restoration is “not a trivial matter but key to human survival,” according to scientists quoted in a 2005 UN report. To demonstrate this, they developed the concept of “ecosystem services” – the benefits that people derive from nature. Over the next 20 years, this concept has…

Petition to Ecuador’s copyright office is first legal attempt to recognise an ecosystem’s moral authorship

Buriton chalk pits, Hampshire: Deep in the vegetation, tucked away in the bark of a fallen tree, I find this elusive species

The red-cockaded woodpecker, an iconic bird in southeastern forests, has recovered enough of its population to be downlisted from an endangered species to a threatened one