World’s worst nuclear disaster leaves mixed legacy of nature’s resilience amid serious contamination, as wars increase lobbying for energy supplyForty years on from the world’s worst nuclear disaster, Chornobyl...
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Read MoreWith prices at the vets soaring by more than 60% since 2016, tests such as MRI scans for dogs can exceed £3,500Why does my vet charge more than a private hospital for humans? I’ve been quoted £1,500 for an MRI...
Read MoreLudwig Koch was once as influential as David Attenborough is today – a new film by his granddaughter sheds light on a tragic event in the naturalist’s life in Berlin before he fled the NazisIn his lifetime,...
Read MoreLarger than any dog, let alone a house cat, the beast swaggered through the Dartmoor mist. My schoolfriends and I were entranced – until the adults who had slept through everything told us we were lyingI was 11, with a...
Read MoreAs a child, Dominique Bikaba, was displaced by a new national park in the DRC. Now he is helping to secure land for wildlife and Indigenous groups against the backdrop of ongoing fightingMist hangs low over the forested slopes...
Read MoreExclusive: Animal welfare charities ‘bitterly disappointed’ that Labour plans to backtrack on manifesto commitmentsThe government is to break a manifesto commitment to ban foie gras imports, and has declined to stop...
Read MoreLots of us aren’t very keen on bats. But the more we find out about them, the more amazing they turn out to beBats have a bad rep: in a recent survey by the Bat Conservation Trust (BCT), 46% of people expressed negative...
Read MorePolice and animal rights activists say trail hunting is frequently used as a ‘smokescreen’ for illegal foxhuntingThe government has said it will ban trail hunting, the rural sport that police and animal rights...
Read MoreWoodcocks and pochard, pintail and goldeneye ducks among threatened species protected by proposalsHunters will be banned from shooting a rare and beautiful duck under new proposals to halt the decline of six British wild...
Read MoreAnimals will feature on £5, £10, £20 and £50 notes, the Bank of England says, but which creatures should make the cut?Native British wildlife will feature on the next set of £5, £10, £20...
Read MoreInsect taxonomist Art Borkent has described and named more than 300 species of midges but fears his field of science is dying out, despite millions of insects, fungi and other organisms waiting to be discoveredOnce Art Borkent...
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