From sniffing dandelions to prodding frogspawn and chasing butterflies, young children are often automatically and unashamedly drawn to nature. Then a chasm opens. During adolescence, many declare wildlife boring, “icky” or uncool, while the allure of social networks and fast fashion intensifies, alongside mounting pressures...
Members of the public are being urged to help identify key species that should be prioritised for conservation within Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent....
The head of the Environment Agency has admitted that freedom of information requests have been buried by the regulator because the truth about the environment in England is “embarrassing”....
Caterpillars respond defensively to electric fields similar to those emitted by their natural predators, scientists at the University of Bristol have found....
A new study comparing small balls of food fed by adult swifts to their offspring with trap data from the Rothamsted Insect Survey suggests that the birds could make a useful contribution to pest suppression – particularly if their numbers could be increased....
The Vile clings on to the edge of the Gower peninsula. Its fields are lined up like strips of carpet, together leading to the edge of the cliff that drops into the sea. Each one is tiny, around 1-2 acres. From the sky, they look like airport runways, although this comparison would have seemed nonsensical to those who tended them...
Our Riverlands project to revive a stretch of precious chalk stream that inspired poets and painters has been completed, marking the culmination of six-years of work led by the National Trust. Approximately ten kilometres of the Upper Bure in Norfolk have been carefully restored in a bid to bring back its gin-clear waters,...
The upcoming election will be crucial for the future viability of life on our planet, yet some politicians have failed to grasp the depth of concern over disappearing wildlife and the impacts of climate change....
A wildlife charity is calling on the public to do one wild thing’ every day for a month this summer as the UK’s largest free nature challenge marks its 10th anniversary....
Acorns from some of the country’s oldest oak trees are being used to create seedlings to populate a newly expanded National Nature Reserve (NNR) in Herefordshire and safeguard the lineage of ancient trees for future generations....
A Powys woman encountered a “huge” barrel jellyfish washed up on a beach, larger than any other she had seen from her years of visiting Welsh beaches....
The Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, with the results from the latest survey demonstrating a picture of ups and downs for the UK’s bird species....
As Invasive Non-Native Species Week (20th – 26th May) gets underway nature groups including The Rivers Trust, Plantlife, and Buglife are calling for Government action to stop a flood of new nature invaders arriving and spreading in the UK due to more extreme weather....
A coalition of local environmental groups have put forward their own River Wye action plan as they criticised the Government’s “vague” proposals to tackle its pollution and nature loss....
The UK’s saltmarshes are under threat from climate change, coastal erosion, and sea-level rise, according to a new study led by the University of St Andrews and the University of York....
The Sussex Kelp Recovery Project (SKRP), the UK’s largest marine rewilding project, celebrates three years of seabed protection in Sussex today on the International Day of Biological Diversity....
The seemingly “never-ending” rain last autumn and winter in the UK and Ireland was made 10 times more likely and 20% wetter by human-caused global heating, a study has found....
The National Bat Monitoring Program Roost Count has been running since 1997 and to date around 2,220 volunteers have carried out counts at over 3,400 roosts. A huge thank you to everyone who takes part in this survey....