Entire £233m budget for 2026 allocated in less than a day, leaving thousands of farmers disappointed

An ecologist explains what happens next.

Britain’s native species are adapted to a cool, wet climate. This summer is putting them under strain.

National Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding

South Australian premier Peter Malinauskas says there have still been no detections in poultry or livestock and no mass deaths involving mammals

The largest global assessment of its kind has shown that plant diversity increases populations of predators to suppress pests before they cause significant crop damage. The meta-analysis combines data from 149 field studies across five continents, with co-authors including Dr Ben Woodcock of the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.

Human impacts substantially affect our ability to detect and understand natural biodiversity patterns.

The results of a new study show that spatial structure is a persistent and fundamental feature of biodiversity, but it depends strongly on scale, does not change uniformly over time, and varies…

Increasing nutrient diversity is expected to promote microbial diversity. This study shows that more complex environments can enhance resource uptake, intensify competition and lead to microbial biodi...

Environmental DNA (eDNA) has expanded rapidly from proof-of-concept demonstrations to a widely used tool in biodiversity assessment, invasive species surveillance, fisheries management and conserva...

SCCS helps young conservation scientists gain experience, learn new ideas and make contacts that will be valuable for their future careers.

Cornell Lab for Ornithology plans data linkup between app and population monitoring on eBird platform

Office for Environmental Protection finds failures by department when it granted emergency authorisation in 2023 and 2024

Individual Common Swifts show high fidelity to nest sites (94–95%), and lesser fidelity to partners (59%).To determine the extent of individual fidelity to nest sites and partners by Common Swifts,...

Honey-buzzards have been studied and surveyed in Sussex since the early 1990s, with many chicks ringed at the nest as part of a wider project in Britain.

The charity says the purchase is an important step in halting declining seabird numbers in the Firth of Forth.

A new grant from the Ecological Restoration Fund will support critical conservation efforts at key sites along the African-Eurasian Flyway.