Life on Earth is at risk from an unprecedented rate of environmental change that threatens the natural resources on which we depend.
New research reveals that biodiversity ‘hotspots’ in the tropics produced new species at faster rates over the last 25 million years, but those in...
The Lost Words is a book by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris that summons the magic of nature to help children find, love and protect...
Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI) last week unveiled a programme to restore priority landscapes across Europe. The Endangered Landscapes...
New findings suggest that more intensive agriculture might be the “least bad” option for feeding the world while saving its species – provided use...
Truffles are one of the world’s most expensive ingredients, and also one of the most mysterious. Now, with the help of a 170-year-old ‘living...
Contrary to public perception, die-offs in honeybee colonies are an agricultural not a conservation issue, argue Cambridge researchers, who say...
Big data study of global biodiversity shows ineffective national governance is a better indicator of species decline than any other measure of “...
A new study shows that even those presumably best informed on the environment find it hard to consistently “walk the walk”, prompting scientists...
The most in-depth species survey to date finds an “astonishing array” of plant diversity in the global botanic garden network, including 41% of...