Award-winning novelist celebrates late partner’s love of birds with gift to establish the Graeme Gibson chair in avian biology

The US has not acknowledged carrying out February's deadly strikes on a primary school in Minab and a sports complex in Lamerd.

The first study to track female Eurasian Dotterel across an entire breeding season reveals a summer of long-distance travel in search of multiple partners.

World Shorebirds Day 2026 looks at recent progress for shorebirds and why continued monitoring of local sites matters beyond a single day or count.

James Orr is an Associate Professor at Cambridge's Faculty of Divinity and, since February 2026, Head of Policy at Reform UK. He has described Nigel Farage's party as an "insurgent right-wing force" a...

Minister Gita Chaudhary says Nepal needs climate justice and grant-based financing after a disaster that killed hundreds, caused billions of dollars in losses a...

Community Action Nepal is a UK charity that works with some of the most remote communities in the Nepalese Himalaya, delivering life-changing education, healthcare, agriculture and livelihood programm...

Study finds older adults could face harmful heat stress at just 1.5C of warming above preindustrial levels

Conservation groups attempting to buy the entire Rothbury Estate have two months to secure £9.3m.

Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.

Human cooperation among non-kin has long been accepted as being based on reciprocity: the idea that we return help from individuals that we re-meet. However, this paradigm has been challenged by Effer...

A Colorado lab researching the ground-squirrels comes up with an innovative way to raise money after funding cuts.

The UK faces growing risks from climate and nature breakdown - from extreme weather to economic disruption and national security threats. Yet the public has never been given a clear national briefing ...

Sociology professor to stand down after university announces investigation into his qualifications and career

The EU is using a currency redesign as an opportunity to be less neutral and try some finely balanced identity-building

When biologists discover a new species in the 21st century, it's usually because they've run new DNA analysis, peered more closely down the microscope, or collected specimens from far beyond the human...

Accumulation on Switzerland’s glaciers from last winter expected to all be gone by Monday amid ‘enormous’ melt rates across Alps