A shortlist of 24 images has been selected for the wildlife photographer of the year people’s choice award. You can vote for your favourite image online. The winner will be announced on 25 March and shown from that date as part of the overall wildlife photographer of the year exhibition, which runs until 12 July at the Natural History Museum in London

Heating means pests breeding and spreading faster, warn scientists, with simplified current food system already vulnerable

The authors synthesize bee assemblage data from 681 crop fields across three continents, finding that local pesticide hazards and decreasing adjacent semi-natural habitats both negatively affected wil...

Large-scale analyses of bird species traits reveal that land-use change reduces resilience of key ecological functions more than previously thought.

Robust species richness estimates are critical for meaningful conservation prioritization, understanding ecosystem resilience, and studying evolutionary processes1-4. Yet, they remain elusive even for...

Environmental groups have praised government's progress made on marine protection at the UN meeting

As CASC Senior Administrator Doug Beard prepares for his next chapter, we reflect on his long and accomplished career with the CASC network.

Numerous declines have been documented across insect groups, and the potential consequences of insect losses are dire. Butterflies are the most surveyed insect taxa, yet analyses have been limited in ...

A generalizable, functional-trait-based approach for quantifying the effects of disturbances to ecosystem services and economic outcomes, including under climate change, highlights the need for incorp...