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A miles-long cluster of dolphins was filmed leaping, gliding and cavorting their way across Carmel Bay on the central coast of California

Coral reef research has focused on the twin evils birthed by record-high greenhouse gas emissions: warming oceans and increasingly acidic seawater. These global threats are caused by seawater absorbing the excess heat and carbon dioxide that fossil fuel burning has added to the atmosphere. But there is another consequence that…

This week the EU will argue the UK’s ban on catching the tiny fish, celebrated by conservationists, amounts to discrimination against Danish fishers

Scientists unsure what prompted juvenile whale to leave icy southern waters for warmer shallows, but ‘it may be a case of mis-navigation’

University of Cambridge research suggests living collections have collectively reached peak capacity

Greater mouse-eared bat was declared extinct in the UK but ecologists now believe population recovery is possible

A community in southern Madagascar has pulled together to save thousands of critically endangered tortoises that were swept away from their sanctuary and left swimming for their lives in floods this month caused by a tropical cyclone

Half of British households put food out for birds but there is increasing concern it can spread disease

Langstone, Hampshire: While most invertebrates are in hibernation, these insects are on the wing and drawn to our warm bodies – but they’re not after our blood