7,500 educational settings now taking part in the free National Education Nature Park programme ...

Almost three quarters of all vertebrates that have been driven extinct by humans lived on islands. The majority of these ...

New analysis shows that the vast majority of the areas we depend on for our survival aren’t being well looked after.

This is because the new analysis of the craniums also puts the Denisovans as the most closely related extinct human species to our own lineage. Therefore, if the Denisovans split off over a million ...

A groundbreaking new study suggests that Homo sapiens could have begun to emerge over one million years ago - pushing back our species’ origins by some 400,000 years compared with genetic estimates.

As Arctic winter warming events become more common, researchers are witnessing the melting landscape first-hand.

A new sensor network using AWS technology will collect live data making the Museum gardens the most intensively studied urban nature site of its kind in the world Alongside thriving wildlife, the ...

Leading seaweed scientists from Malaysia and the UK and officials from the Department of Fisheries Sabah are meeting with more than 50 stakeholders this week to propose a new Progressive Management ...

Developed by NHM researchers, the BII is widely recognised as the most scientifically robust measure of ecosystem health. The BII tracks how biodiversity in terrestrial ecosystems is affected by human ...

Scientists have uncovered new evidence that woolly mammoths and Columbian mammoths repeatedly interbred in North America, reshaping our understanding of how these Ice Age giants evolved in response to ...

Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) transformed the way we understand the natural world with ideas that, in his day, were nothing short of revolutionary. He and his fellow pioneers in the field of ...

The henna plant has been widely used throughout the world for thousands of years, particularly within medicine and art. However, its origin and history are not well-recorded. Despite its popular ...