Researchers should move from characterising factors impacting scientific evidence use to identifying and testing interventions to facilitate its use by conservation decision makers. Since these facto....

Areas of Iceland that have experienced high volcanic ash deposition can accommodate up to three times as many breeding waders. When Tómas Gunarsson began his PhD at the University of East Anglia on…

Writer, teacher and naturalist who explored the effects of the natural world on neurodivergency

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

A $1-million gift from Margaret Atwood in honour of her longtime partner will create the Graeme Gibson Chair in Avian Biology at Western.

Behavioral neuroscience; Ecology; Transcriptomics

Emerging infectious disease outbreak risks are ubiquitous worldwide, and highest in landscapes where people, livestock and fragmented natural ecosystems coexist, but detection and data ...

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

When Camilo Carneiro and colleagues started to write a 2026 paper about global movements of Whimbrel, in 2024, there was just one species. By the time they finished there were two, with the America…

21.09.2026 – Seven breached Planetary Boundaries continue to worsen as record ocean heat, droughts, floods, wildfires and extreme heat reveal an Earth system under strain, according to the latest Plan...

Glaciers are not supposed to stop moving, but in 2014 one did. Miles Ellingham travels to Iceland to see it and meet the activist who believes its death should shock us into taking action

The world is suddenly full of webs and hairy legs. But why? And what do they belong to? Meet the spiders you’re most likely to encounter, from cardinals to false wolves

The Grey Plover may be grey in the winter but in its summer plumage the American name of Black-bellied Plover is far more appropriate. Each spring, adults moult into this breeding finery but what h…

Biodiversity is linked to people’s diversity, and nature lends itself to people who are different, says author Joe Harkness

By Nihar B. Shah

Applying DNA metabarcoding to assess dietary overlap and prey selectivity in wetland insectivore communities

Almost 600 climate scientists, health professionals and conservationists have warned against approving the Rosebank oil field