The herb layer in forests has a large potential to provide nectar and pollen for pollinators, but forest management practices such as planting tree species mixtures vs monocultures can affect floral r...

Sentient Media reveals less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as source of carbon emissions

A 2025 meta-analysis of 1,705 studies confirms that pesticides are widely toxic to many non-target organisms. “Pesticides affect a diverse range of non-target species and may be linked to global biodi...

Measuring selection and dominance in fitness of the insecticide-resistant Ace alleles in Drosophila melanogaster, the authors show evidence for beneficial reversal of dominance, a mechanism that can s...

Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.

Did you know wasps switch from ham to jam foraging during the late summer?

The Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics is offering a four-year PhD position focused on analyzing population-level genomic data from museum bird samples. The project will employ cutting-edge gen...

Although shedding rates for aquatic species are well studied, little is known about terrestrial mammal shedding rates in water. In this study, we quantify eDNA shedding rates from domestic dogs durin...

Making concerned people aware their views are far from alone could unlock the change so urgently needed

An assessment of existing coral restoration projects finds that accessibility drives the choice of restoration sites more than environmental and ecological factors, and most restored reefs have been o...

Extinction is, for the time being, forever – and a symptom of our global economic system.

Background Beneficial insects, including pollinators, encounter various pesticide exposure conditions, from brief high-concentration acute exposure to continuous low-level chronic exposure. To effecti...

Nature literacy has inspired creativity and innovation for thousands of years.

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Recently the Bumblebee Conservation Trust (BCT) reported that, in 2024, British bumblebees experienced their worst year since the BCT started its monitoring campaign. Overall, the numbers of bees w…

Biologist Tatsuya Amano works to make science a fairer place for non-fluent speakers.

Subject description The project will use a comparative functional genomes approach to study a species-rich group of moths, Noctuidae (Lepidoptera). Noctuidae have both a huge negative and positive imp

A comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity covering more than three decades of research demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation i...

Emergency use of Cruiser SB, a neonicotinoid pesticide highly toxic to bees, to be outlawed in UK in line with EU