Browsing: nature

Victoria’s Healesville Sanctuary is helping to protect and restore the critically endangered orange-bellied parrot which is predicted to be extinct within five years.With only 50 known…

It began with gastropods. Last Tuesday, the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, told a conference of tech executives that she’d intervened to help a developer build about 20,000…

This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you…

Nature-Inspired Gel Explains Why This Duck Is StuckToday this material can seal pipes and brave the ocean. But someday it could be used in surgery or…

Elizabeth Day felt as if she hadn’t seen the sun for decades. It was a gloomy December morning and the podcaster and author was headed towards a London…

Some farms in England could be taken entirely out of food production under plans to make more space for nature, the environment secretary has said.Speaking at…

The move comes after HHS Secretary and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on a May 27 podcast that prestigious medical journals are “corrupt.” “We’re…

Citing an unnamed source, Axios reported this week that the Trump administration has cut “about $20 million in grants covering subscriptions” with Springer Nature, which publishes more…

Madagascar’s aye-aye: “as if fear and panic had a baby and rolled it in dog hair” National Geographic/Eleanor Paish Madagascar’s aye-aye: “as if fear and panic…

The government’s leading environmental adviser has said ministers are wrong to suggest nature is blocking development.Tony Juniper, the chair of Natural England, is to oversee a…