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This week the new theme for the autumn edition of the I,Science magazine, which is Earth, as our inspiration. There...
The rich biodiversity of Nepal is a tribute to its diverse climate, altitudinal variation and geography. In total 118 ecosystems...
Could beavers be successfully re-established in Britain and what affect would they have on local biodiversity? Beavers are ecosystem engineers...
Long-term insect surveillance initiatives, such as the Rothamsted Insect Survey and the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, allow ongoing assessments of...
Pine trees, Bristol Many of us will take a summer walk through Britain’s woodlands and forests these coming months. From...
The Himalayas (pictured) tend to be 'hourglass' shaped when looking at habitat availability, in comparison to 'diamond-shaped' (the Rockies), 'pyramid-shaped'...
Hainan gibbon female with infant As the sun breaks over the rainforests of Hainan Island, the soft, golden glow catches...
Our annual nature fair and celebration of UK natural history and biodiversity is back. Explore UK wildlife, meet experts who...
Over the last 50 years, an increasing number of wild animal translocations have been undertaken for conservation purposes. Wild animal...
Opening the 2015 Authors for Animals programme former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion considers the seahorse – a creature with a...
Good communication between policy makers and scientists is a crucial requirement for developing policies that cost-effectively achieve measurable outcomes in...
Economic growth has undoubtedly improved human livelihoods yet has equally convincingly had negative effects on the environment. Scientists are considering...
Anthropogenic environmental changes, such as global land use and land cover change, driven by rapid human population growth and increasing...
95% of the stony coral in the oceans will be gone within less than 50 years unless we act now....
Can the coral reefs be saved? Marine biologist Dr Mary Hagedorn has adapted human IVF techniques to freeze coral sperm...
Global biodiversity is declining at an alarming rate as extinction drivers, such as habitat loss, invasive species and climate change,...
The saiga antelope is one of the most threatened species on the planet. I came across them for the first...
The loss of a species was once thought to be as final as the demise of its last survivor but...
Despite conservation efforts, approximately 30% of all marine, fresh-water and land animals will become extinct in the next 50 years....
The future of science that Prof Muki Haklay, of the Extreme Citizen Science group, laid out in his lecture will...
Our little blue planet is dying. For decades scientists have been warning of the potentially fatal affects of...
I was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, and although I couldn’t wait to leave the place when I headed off to...
Andean Flamingos Pink bodied and yellow legged, these Andean Flamingos sift through shallow silt at sunset in the Atacama desert....
With the summer coming to a close, your mind might be starting to wander onto more wintery thoughts. For some,...
Dead fish after an overflow event. Image: Thames Anglers Conservancy. There once was a time when the Thames was teeming...
Residents lead the way in restoring the River Wandle Bright and early on a June weekend morning, volunteers in a...
Update #2 from science documentary filmmakers Jade Hoffman and Noah Baker, who are filming dogs that track whales in the...
Last week Noah Baker and Jade Hoffman, documentary filmmakers from Imperial College London, left for the Pacific Northwest in the...
Adonis Blue This article is taken from the Winter 2011 issue of I, Science. Are we in a post-butterfly era?...
