From a “mile-long” swarm in Devon to warnings to swimmers in the Outer Hebrides, it seems jellyfish are difficult to ignore this summer. High temperatures, calm and warm seas and ...
Watchtowers in trees, tripwire alarms, radio collars, chilli smoke and beehive fences: scientists and conservationists across Asia and Africa are coming up with safe and humane ways to keep elephants ...
Labour has called for grouse shooting to be licensed after a big increase in illegal killings of birds of prey during the coronavirus lockdown, the majority of which, investigators say, ...
Facebook has managed to connect people from all around the world. As the planet’s largest social network, that is obviously its aim, but it’s had some very serious unintended consequences. ...
Southwestern Russia is stuck in a hump daze. A large group of deranged camels has been terrorizing local villagers in Russia’s Astrakhan region after a pensioner released them onto the ...
Australia’s “black summer” megafires were a severe blow to ecosystems already reeling from decades of adverse impacts. Feral predators and grazers, weeds and unsustainable land and water use have reduced ...
PORTLAND, Maine — Seals are thriving off the Northeast coast thanks to decades of protections, and that victory for wildlife has brought a consequence for humans — more encounters with ...
Carl Sagan – one of my heroes and a scientist with a gift for communicating complex ideas in accessible ways – wrote back in 1994: “If we continue to accumulate ...
Apple, pear, plum, fig and vine all shunned, her looping flight takes her back to the hawthorn. She lands, embracing the leaf, testing its texture with six gold-fringed legs. With ...
The Italian coastguard is struggling to free a sperm whale caught up in illegal fishing netting off the coast of one of Sicily’s Aeolian islands. A team of divers and ...
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