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Understanding how bats, which are one of nature's largest disease reservoirs, have changed over time can help scientists to identify new disease hotspots.

Dating back to over 13 billion years ago, HD1 could have formed shortly after the Big Bang, with properties unlike any modern galaxy. 

With the finding yet to be published in a scientific journal, debate continues over whether this could be the case. 

In response to a warming world, many species are physically changing their body sizes. 

We have just three years to keep the dream of 1.5⁰C of global warming alive.

The Big Plastic Count will take place between 16 and 22 May

Tumbleweeds have starred in many movies, but their representation in popular media may be somewhat misleading.

As climate change intensifies, a greater number of wildfires will increase the risk from ultraviolet radiation.

Community Care won the Photojournalist Story Award in the fifty-seventh Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. The images document the efforts of the Lwiro Chimpanzee rescue centre and sanctuary, which rehabilitates orphaned chimpanzees.  

A chilly scene of willow trees rising above a frozen lake in Italy.

Can animals fall in love? How does procreation work in the vast ocean? Discover the beauty of animal attraction with Wildlife Photographer of the Year.

Chilly landscape photo of Lake Santa Croce wins the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award 2022.

A log pile can give home and shelter to some of the smaller inhabitants of your garden.

A garden pond is one of the best ways you can help Britain's wildlife. You can create one in even the tiniest of gardens.

Birds need access to water year-round. Help them out by building a simple garden bird bath. 

The mountain chicken is teetering on the brink of extinction, but we may now have a way to save them.

Understanding how bats, which are one of nature's largest disease reservoirs, have changed over time can help scientists to identify new disease hotspots.

Dating back to over 13 billion years ago, HD1 could have formed shortly after the Big Bang, with properties unlike any modern galaxy. 

With the finding yet to be published in a scientific journal, debate continues over whether this could be the case. 

In response to a warming world, many species are physically changing their body sizes. 

We have just three years to keep the dream of 1.5⁰C of global warming alive.

The tropics have long been perceived as being a riot of colour.

The Museum's new, free Women in Science tour tell some inspiring stories of women in science.

The Big Plastic Count will take place between 16 and 22 May

Tumbleweeds have starred in many movies, but their representation in popular media may be somewhat misleading.

As climate change intensifies, a greater number of wildfires will increase the risk from ultraviolet radiation.

The bittern, whose call is as loud as a jet taking off, is returning to areas of the country it hasn't been seen in for centuries. 

The snakes can move their ribs independently to suck in air while others are constricting.

Community Care won the Photojournalist Story Award in the fifty-seventh Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. The images document the efforts of the Lwiro Chimpanzee rescue centre and sanctuary, which rehabilitates orphaned chimpanzees.  

Spinosaurs were some of the only dinosaurs that spent much of their lives in water.

NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) is undergoing its last big test before its first flight.

Populations of raptors are over 50,000 birds smaller than they would otherwise be.

The reintroduction is another step forward for campaigns to return the aquatic rodent to the UK.

White clovers are adapting to face the dryness of cities globally by reducing production of anti-herbivore compounds.

The minerals, Tanzanite, Morganite and Rhodochrosite, are richly coloured, great in size and scientifically significant. 

Living over 40 million years before the sabre-tooth tiger, Diegoaelurus vanvalkenburghae may have preyed on rhinos and primates in the forests of California. 

It adds to the understanding of how these curious dinosaurs evolved and spread around the world.

There is currently not enough evidence to prove they are a genuine new species, or just a distinct population of an existing one. 

While its impacts are uncertain, it could have caused the world to warm significantly.

The Earthshot Prize is the most prestigious environmental prize in the world.