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Every year, tens of thousands of land birds make a long flight across Bass Strait – the stretch of water separating Tasmania from continental Australia.

In its new 10-year strategy, the charity also sets out plans ranging from more access to green space to more local dishes in its cafes.

Last year, much of the world’s largest coral reef system was transformed into a white boneyard, featuring ghostly silhouettes of horns, brains and lettuces. The threat of sudden biodiversity loss from climate change had been realised through what’s known as a mass bleaching event.

FIRST Minister John Swinney has condemned the illegal release of two lynx in the Highlands ...

For far too long, the decline in the biodiversity of our rivers and lakes has been out of sight and out of mind. As a freshwater ecologist I have long felt frustrated as conservation and research is dominated by land and sea species, even though our rivers, lakes, ponds and…

New research shows about a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes and other freshwater sources are threatened with extinction

Experts say marsupial mole DNA shows they are closely linked to bandicoots and bilbies and their ancestors probably evolved in rainforests

These tiny organisms matter. They have been used to map dark matter and improve transport networks, and they’re living all around us, says author Lucy Jones

Reproduction is ‘very rare’ for a humpback male, study of South Pacific whales finds

An Australian politician might have taken more heat just for praising the catch and posting about it on Facebook.

A GROUNDBREAKING new project to study sharks and skates will be conducted in Scottish waters after funding was secured...