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Scientists working on Australia's Great Barrier Reef have successfully trialed a new method for freezing and storing coral larvae they say could eventually help rewild reefs threatened by climate change. Scientists are scrambling to protect coral reefs as rising ocean temperatures destabilize delicate ecosystems.

Scientists at Royal Botanic Gardens say naming new species is part of global effort to protect Earth’s biodiversity

Research shows disruption lasts for up to 25 minutes after spraying, discouraging insects from visiting

Scientists have discovered hatchling and juvenile populations of the Galapagos pink land iguana, an endangered reptile native to a sole island on the Ecuadorean archipelago, for the first time since the species' discovery just decades ago.

Biodiversity refers to the variety of life found on Earth and underpins the natural systems which grow our food, cleanse our air and water and regulate our climate. Human life cannot exist without it. But around one million animal and plant species are now threatened by extinction.

The 60-year-old woman from Washington State was snorkelling off the coast of Maui last week with her spouse

A landmark biodiversity deal cliched at the Cop15 summit offers a mixed bag for nature-rich developing countries – namely the Democratic Republic of Congo – which now supports the text despite earlier protests over funding for conservation efforts.

The talking is over, and a text has been agreed on the next decade of targets to save the natural world. Here are the highs and lows of the Convention of Biological Diversity’s (CBD) agreement

Five Iberian lynx have been released into the wild in southern Spain this week as part of an expanding breeding programme aimed at conserving one of the world's most endangered feline species with distinctive long black ear tufts.

Diving birds like penguins, puffins and cormorants may be more prone to extinction than non-birds">diving birds, according to a new study by the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath. Read on for details:

A young veteran struggling with PTSD finds new meaning in life in this touching and emotionally intelligent documentary