1+ hour, 3+ min ago   (629+ words) A group of scientists taking part in an 18-month investigation into pollution sources impacting Lough Neagh have said that their work will go towards helping restore the freshwater body. Lough Neagh is the largest freshwater lake in the UK and…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (531+ words) Half a dozen young white-tailed eagles have been released in Exmoor National Park as part of a project to bring the lost birds back to England’s skies. The eagles, nicknamed flying barn doors because of their wingspan of up to…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (547+ words) With a wingspan bigger than a door, a maximum flying height of 7,300 metres and a diet mostly consisting of bones, the bearded vulture is no ordinary animal. The largest bird of the Alps, I’ve heard stories about them, but have…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (926+ words) Bill Oddie was “one of the first and bravest people” to speak about mental health, and “made the natural world everybody’s world”, according to his Springwatch co-host Kate Humble. News of the wildlife presenter’s death at the age of 85 was…...

3+ week, 20+ hour ago   (547+ words) The UK could be heading for a bumper butterfly season – and even a “painted lady summer” – conservationists say as they urge people to join a national count for the insects. Wildlife charity Butterfly Conservation said that a warm, dry spring…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (679+ words) Digital records of around 700,000 specimens held in Scotland’s natural science collections are to be created in a digitisation project that will help unlock “critical information” about biodiversity. More than 250,000 insects from National Museums Scotland (NMS) and 388,000 herbarium specimens from the…...

4+ week, 20+ hour ago   (656+ words) The UK could lose its first bird species to climate change, conservationists have warned, as mountain-breeding dotterel numbers tumbled almost 90%. The small, wading birds with rusty-orange chests migrate from northern Africa to mountainous regions in the UK each summer to…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (506+ words) A one-tonne elephant seal has returned to his birthplace in Tasmania on the Australian coast, causing quite a stir – and property damage. The five-year-old aquatic mammal, called Neil, has a social media following twice the size of Tasmania’s population, and…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1089+ words) Thanks to Bram Stoker’s Gothic Horror about Count Dracula and his ability to change into a Vampire bat with a taste for human blood, many suffer from a condition known as ‘chiroptophobia,’ in other words, an intense and irrational fear…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (425+ words) Police are appealing for information after a protected golden eagle released in the Scottish Borders in February was found with shotgun injuries. Scans and treatment revealed four-year-old Squeagle had been shot and had at least 17 shotgun pellets lodged in her…...