Enock Bwambale stopped at the lip of the dying glacier, its blunted nose arcing steeply down to scoured rocks, then shouted up to his fellow guide Uziah Kule that the ice was too sheer to descend on foot. 

Larvae produced by black rockfish, a linchpin of the West Coast commercial fishing industry for the past eight decades, fared better during two recent years of unusually high ocean temperatures than had been feared, new research by Oregon State University shows.

Scientists have filmed a snailfish five miles underwater in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench south of Japan. 

Researchers are deploying the latest mapping techniques to identify the most important suburban habitat for North America’s largest woodpecker.

The latest results from the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS) suggest the heatwave and drought of summer 2022 has had a negative impact on some UK butterfly species.

Plans to reintroduce the lynx in Scotland provoke a complex range of opinions, new research shows.

As a key food supply declines, the endangered population of Southern Resident killer whales, known to frequent the Salish Sea off the coasts of Washington and British Columbia, is spending far less time in that region, a new study shows.

A new study led by researchers at British Antarctic Survey (BAS) discovered microplastics in krill (Euphausia superba), a small shrimp-like crustacean, and salps (Salpa thompsoni), a gelatinous marine invertebrate. 

Turtles and crocodiles are two of the world's most endangered animal groups, with approximately half of species globally threatened (International Union for Conservation of Nature, IUCN).

They are small, have a high reproductive output and live in the forests of Madagascar.