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  • Two free frogs mating on a leaf

    Invasive species
    Galápagos had no native amphibians. Then it was invaded by hundreds of thousands of frogs

    Scientists are only beginning to grasp the scale of the issue and understand what impact the tree frogs may have on the islands’ rare wildlife
  • Silhouette of a woman with backpack among trees in backlight sun.

    Analysis
    The nature extinction crisis is mirrored by one in our own bodies. Both have huge implications for health

    Modern life is waging a war against ecosystems around us and inside us. Keeping our own microbes healthy is another reason to demand action to preserve the natural world
  • A deer eating shrubs in gardens in front of homes on Vancouver Island, Canada

    Biodiversity
    The luxury effect: why you’ll find more wildlife in wealthy areas – and what it means for your health

  • Two children in hi-viz in a green environment

    Rewilding
    How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health

  • Endangered species
    The comeback of the mountain gorilla – podcast

    Podcast29:28
  • A person wearing protective gear and a helmet stands in a smoke-filled forest holding a fire hose spraying water

    Ukraine in depth
    Wildfires have consumed vast chunks of Ukraine. Is Russia deliberately fuelling the flames?

  • Elephants grazing in Tsavo East national park near Voi in Taita-Taveta county. on September, 12, 2025,

    Human-wildlife conflict
    Ancient elephant migration routes are being blocked off – can anything stop the rising death toll?

  • A young bonobo hangs on to a vine in a tree

    DRC
    Bonobos transformed how we think about animal societies. Can we save the last of the ‘hippy apes’?

  • Map of the world showing migratory bird paths with two swans flying

    Birds
    Bird migration is changing. What does this reveal about our planet? – visualised

  • Aerial view of a smallish island with dark soil and patches of green along a spit of flatter land in front of two peaks

    Iceland
    A new island erupted from the sea – can it show us how nature works without human interference?

Explore

  • View of a glacier running through a valley with snow-clad peaks in the distance, seen from a clearing in a pine forest

    ‘Like walking through time’: as glaciers retreat, new worlds are being created in their wake

  • A path leads through bushes; an island can be seen in the distance

    The island that banned hives: can honeybees actually harm nature?

  • Wildlife officials catch a lizard to be relocated in Lumphini Park, Bangkok.

    ‘You’re going about your day and suddenly see a little Godzilla’: Bangkok reckons with a giant lizard boom

  • A women with grey hair reaches up to free a bird trapped in a net

    ‘A little bit of joy’: can tiny rafts save endangered sparrows from rising seas?

Explainers

  • Illustration of a butterfly, a worm and a fish overlaid with pink to connote a plastic thread moving through the ecosystems.

    The life of microplastic: how fragments move through plants, insects, animals – and you

  • Researchers investigate the spread of bird flu, on Beak Island in Antarctica, March 2, 2024 in this handout image. Ben Wallis/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES

    Explainer
    Forgotten epidemic: with over 280 million birds dead how is the avian flu outbreak evolving?

  • The biggest threats to our natural world

    The five biggest threats to our natural world … and how we can stop them

  • A bee lands on a purple flower

    Food, soil, water: how the extinction of insects would transform our planet

Wild world

  • A mantis rests under barbed wire

    ‘Landmines have become the greatest protectors’: how wildlife is thriving in the Korean DMZ

  • An aerial photograph showing a vast sea of trees.

    In Ukraine’s bombed out reservoir a huge forest has grown – is it a return to life or a toxic timebomb?

  • Barn owl sits on a fence post at night in the Croydon area

    What a hoot! Owl sightings increase in London – and not just in the leafy suburbs

  • A female stonechat with a caterpillar sitting in a hawthorn tree

    Bringing back the birds: the ‘ghost woodlands’ transforming England’s barren sheep fells

Nature heroes

  • A woman with her eyes closed crouches down and holds an elephant’s leg as other elephants stand over her

    Thailand
    The elephant whisperer: one Thai woman’s lifelong quest to protect a rescued herd

  • A man sits on a rock that is covered with wild flowers. He is putting plant samples into a collection book

    ‘Best job in the natural world’: seed collector enlisted as modern-day Darwin to document the world’s plants

  • An older woman in a beekeeper's protective clothing and helmet peering at a wooden tray with honeycomb and bees in a field with hives

    I’m a vet for bees – I think I might be the only one in the US

  • Three children, two on scooters, one running, pass buildings with peeling paint.

    ‘Our community deserves beauty’: one man’s mission to green a UK tree desert

Negotiating nature

  • A shoal of Teira batfish swim past red coral on a reef

    Environment
    Public strongly backs aim of 30% of land and sea set aside for nature, poll finds

  • A fisher paddles through wetlands in Accra, Ghana.

    Cop16
    Cop16 nature summit agrees deal at 11th hour but critics say it is not enough

  • Aerial view of seven people doing a giant jigsaw puzzle showing a jaguar and what looks like a panda

    Cop16
    Crucial UN nature talks are about to reopen in Rome – but will enough countries turn up?

  • A gibbon sits in a rainforest tree

    30x30
    More than half of countries are ignoring biodiversity pledges – analysis

Watch, see and listen

  • Sea levels are rising in New England at some of the fastest rates in the world. On a quiet ribbon of saltmarsh in Rhode Island, septuagenarian Deirdre isn't prepared to accept the loss of her beloved saltmarsh sparrow, which risks becoming extinct by 2050 due to elevated high tides inundating nests and drowning fledgling birds. Leading a team of citizen scientists, Deirdre unravels the secret to finding delicate nests amid thick marsh grass, while they design and deploy a low-cost 'ark' to try to raise vulnerable sparrow nests to safety. Will this be the year they manage to save them?

    Between Moon Tides: hacking nature to save the saltmarsh sparrow

    Video25:24
  • A small sloth clings to a barbed-wire fencepost where a path meets farmland

    Wildlife photographer of the year 2025 – in pictures

    Gallery15

  • Best of 2025 … so far: the great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear? – podcast

    Podcast36:18

  • Streams of medicines: how Switzerland cleaned up its act – podcast

    Podcast15:54

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