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From the rock sea-spurrey, which appears to grow out of solid rock, to the slender centaury that lives on a landslip, these plants exist where they do for good reason

Bodmin, Cornwall: These red-listed mice are still sleeping off the last of winter. As we check for activity, we enter a world of velveteen moss rugs and squatting shrews

Security camera footage captured the elusive creature on a dock in Canary Wharf in boost for London wildlife

Exclusive: Ancient oaks ‘as precious as stately homes’ could receive stronger legal safeguards under new proposals

Met Police confirms it has dropped its investigation into tree felling, citing no evidence of criminality

Scientists call for urban areas to be tested for contaminants and potentially cleaned before wildflowers are planted

This is the first time ever that salmon fishing will be closed in California for the third time running

Queensland is widely known as the land clearing capital of Australia. But what’s not so well known is many of the cleared trees can grow back naturally.

The colossal squid was first described in 1925 based on specimens from the stomach of a commercially hunted sperm whale. A century later, an international voyage captured the first confirmed video of this species in its natural habitat – a 30-centimetre juvenile, at a depth of 600 metres near the…