Environment

A new study in England has revealed that European hedgehogs vary their hibernation start dates by up to 93 days to ensure they’re getting enough food for winter.

Understanding cuckoo migration patterns – and the dangers these birds face – can help us consider how we might help protect them, say experts.

Urgent conservation action is required if we're to save the sturgeon from being lost from UK waters, say experts.

Farmers hope the nature-based solution will help control bracken levels, allowing wildflowers, invertebrates and birds the optimum conditions to thrive.

At a time of environmental loss and climate chaos, should we be cutting down living trees just for the Christmas period? We delve deeper...

The native white-clawed crayfish were found with mysterious orange patches all over their bodies.

Should the world stop eating meat to tackle the climate crisis? Chris Baraniuk meets an experimental farmer who says we don’t all have to become vegetarians.

Seaweed farms promise rural investment. But are the benefits overstated?

More than 6,000 non-native stoats have been removed from Orkney – an archipelago off the north coast of Scotland.

Anti-inflammatory drugs, pain relievers and untreated sewage were also detected in Earthwatch's annual river survey.

After just one year, the innovative river restoration technique, first pioneered in Oregon, has already delivered incredible benefits to both nature and people.

The new strategy outlines the major threats to hedgehogs that conservation NGOs, local councils and the Government must tackle collectively over the next decade to stop their decline.

The tauros, a type of wild cattle specially bred to resemble the long-lost aurochs, could be roaming the Dundreggan estate near Loch Ness in Scotland by 2026.

An estimated 230,000 badgers have been killed in the past decade.

Other nominees include the UK's widest oak, a tree believed to be more than 1,000 years old, and an ancient specimen shrouded in rainforest bryophytes.

Pollution, invasive species and habitat fragmentation are also listed as threats in the Embracing Nature report, published today by The Wildlife Trusts.

The Scottish Government has selected Galloway as the preferred site for a new national park in Scotland. What are the pros and cons?

Eight green shoots have been found growing from the base of the famous tree, 10 months after it was illegally felled.