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One in six Welsh species threatened with extinction but report says Welsh government lacks ‘action and investment’

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INEOS chairman Jim Ratcliffe has accused ministers of overseeing the extinction of the UK’s chemical manufacturing industry...

The extinction of the megafauna – giant marsupials that lived in Australia until 60,000 to 45,000 years ago – is a topic of fierce debate. Some researchers have suggested a reliance on certain plants left some species susceptible to changes in climate.

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

A major global analysis examined the extinction threat to 23,496 freshwater species of fish, dragonflies, damselflies, crabs, crayfish and shrimp.

Is technology really to blame for bad behaviour, or is something else afoot?

Modern scrub mints, delicate flowering plants that grow mostly in Florida, likely result from ancient hybridization, according to a recent study I published with colleagues.