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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

Tiny waterbirds that hardly ever come to land are moulting now that breeding season is over

Determined fishers are testing their stretches of river for pollution as citizen scientists take on the water companies

It's the latest of a number of mass deaths of birds across Ireland

Experts say a spawning event in March that killed thousands of fish has left the Gascoyne town's famous coral reefs pale and lifeless.

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"