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Kew study reveals areas with at least 100,000 undiscovered plant species – most likely to be under threat of extinction

Below the surface of the oceans, microscopic algae known as phytoplankton are growing as the world warms. That’s one finding of our new study, published in Nature Climate Change, which provides the first long-term account, over more than three decades, of phytoplankton that live beyond the sight of ocean-monitoring satellites.

An emergency bid to save a population of capercaillie in the Cairngorms National Park has been launched.

When dead animals are left lying around in nature, who takes advantage of the free feed – carnivores or herbivores? The answer may surprise you.

One of the most severe cases of reduced genetic diversity is the Iberian lynx, once the world’s most threatened cat species.

Climate change and pesticides have combined to pose a deadly threat to the vivid species. The Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards celebrate the fightback

Another chapter in one of the greatest comeback stories in the world of endangered species is being written with the release of three young California condors north of the Grand Canyon

Sea robins' legs, sensory organs with taste receptors, aid in uncovering buried prey and showcase evolutionary innovation.‌  

Oarfish live at great depths, are mostly seen washed ashore, and are a sign of impending doom, as legend has it, but rarely look like this.

Portsmouth-based patrol vessel HMS Medway transported the loggerhead turtlesto the Azores

Sefton, Southport: As the days shorten, thousands of honking pink-footed geese arrive in England’s north-west from Greenland, Iceland and Norway