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- Jackdaw chicks listen to adults to learn about predators
- Wildlife imaging shows that AI models aren’t as smart as we think
- Porpoises ‘buzz’ less when boats are nearby
- Artificial nighttime lighting is suppressing moth activity
- Global boost for scheme that pairs politicians with threatened species
- Distance from natural habitat doesn’t reduce pollination in tropical smallholder farms
- ‘If we wait, it will be too late’: Hundreds of scientists sign urgent climate declaration
- Scientists map the genetic distribution of maerl-forming algae across South West
- Fossil fuel CO2 emissions hit record high in 2025
- Land carbon sinks cannot keep up, while rising temperatures spread disease and threaten incomes – report warns
- ‘Derailment’ warning as world faces threats to its ability to act on climate change
- ‘New reality’ as world reaches first climate tipping point
- Oil rig study reveals vital role of tiny hoverflies
- Scilly Isles cameras give glimpse of ‘natural’ UK waters
- Nature could be an effective self-help tool for improving mental health
- Chagos study highlights value of vast Marine Protected Areas
- Global hunt for ‘positive tipping points’
- Robot crab reveals how males compete in claw-waving contest
- ‘Tipping points’ experts issue urgent message to world leaders
- Killer whales make seaweed ‘tools’ to scratch each other’s backs
- Arctic peatlands expanding as climate warms
- Wasp mums use remarkable memory when feeding offspring
- Scottish shrimp study illuminates new potential for bait-less fishing
- Chip-shop fish among key seabed engineers
- New pests and diseases will cut UK tree growth
- Migrating flies vital for people and nature
- Science ‘storytelling’ urgently needed amid climate and biodiversity crisis
- Social media can help track species as climate changes
- 1,400 species found in guts of Asian hornets
- New £10m centre to tackle the health impacts of climate change
- Antarctic ‘greening’ at dramatic rate
- ‘Art for insects’ could help save pollinators
- New research has found prescribing nature can improve happiness and reduce anxiety
- Forest restoration can boost people, nature and climate simultaneously
- Environmental benefits at the heart of new solar research partnership
- Research backs beavers in fight against flooding and droughts
- Access to gardens and citizen science helps encourage conservation among children, study shows
- Policymakers must recognise global economic risks posed by ecosystem ‘tipping points’
- AI helps to detect invasive Asian hornets
- Loss of nature costs more than previously estimated
- Bats declined as Britain felled trees for colonial shipbuilding
- Exeter experts give verdict on COP28 deal
- Botany must feature more prominently on the school curriculum to promote awareness of climate change, study warns
- Roaming seabirds need ocean-wide protection
- Climate report: ‘Uncharted territory’ imperils life on Earth
- Drifting crustaceans could hold key to climate change
- Bumblebees drop to shake off Asian hornets
- Clever lapwings use cover to hide in plain sight
- Jackdaws switch friends to gain food – but stick with family
- Bats struggle during organic farming transition
- Fish ‘suffocating in the heat’: Exeter experts comment on UK’s hottest June
- Twilight zone at risk from climate change
- Female butterflies breed despite male shortage
- Study reveals how pollinators cope with plant toxins
- Lynx reintroduction in Scotland? It’s complicated
- Reaction: Exeter experts comment on UK government’s net zero plan
- Noise harming ocean invertebrates and ecosystems
- How can the UK restore its Wild Isles?
- Swan populations grow 30 times faster in nature reserves
- New Damselfly sharing habitat with UK natives
- Hen harrier row could unlock other conservation conflicts
- New damselfly sharing habitat with UK natives
- The impact of zoos on society is largely underestimated
- No sign of decrease in global CO2 emissions
- “Plant blindness” is caused by urban life and could be cured through wild food foraging, study shows
- Natural England and University of Exeter announce partnership
- British coral predicted to be resilient to climate change
- Resilience of ecosystems can be measured from space
- UK wildlife watchers welcome "ecological refugees"
- Protected areas don’t always boost biodiversity
- Exeter and Potsdam agree 'tipping points' partnership
- UK biodiversity renewal project to revive nature and communities receives £10 million investment
- Councils urged to sign 'motion for the ocean'
- English Channel stops new rockpool species reaching UK
- Rewilding efforts in England are “domesticated” and of a smaller scale compared to efforts in other nations, study argues
- Rapid increase in global light pollution
- Farmers help create ‘Virtual safe space’ to save bumblebees
- Conservation an ‘oversight’ in zoo research
- Light pollution has complex effects on animal vision
- Bird migration takes plants in wrong direction to cope with climate change
- Seabird eggs contaminated with cocktail of plastic additives
- Public concern on human health impact of plastic pollution
- Drone footage reveals social secrets of killer whales
- Road verges provide opportunity for wildflowers, bees and trees
- New partnership between the University of Exeter and the National Trust to help protect the natural world
- Large bumblebees start work earlier
- Friends and enemies 'make sense' for long-lived animals
- Ocean's mammals at crucial crossroads
- A-maze-ing pheasants have two ways of navigating
- Survey finds beavers establishing strong presence in City of Perth
- Common pipistrelle bats attracted to wind turbines
- Birds living in natural habits can help inform captive care
- Health and wellbeing benefits of walking on the South West Coast Path valued at over £75 million per year
- New nature experiment launched with BBC Music
- Big bumblebees learn locations of best flowers
- Peatland preservation vital to climate
- Green prescriptions could undermine the benefits of spending time in nature
- New environmental intelligence tool will help protect Cornwall’s wildlife and landscape
- Warming of 2°C would release billions of tonnes of soil carbon
- Mystery over decline in sea turtle sightings
- Fresh insight into secret lives of basking sharks
- Surface clean-up technology won't solve ocean plastic problem
- Plastics found in sea-bed sharks
- Defra report features Westcountry research on health benefits of being by the sea
- Road verges could be havens for pollinators
- Ecosystem degradation could raise risk of pandemics
- Crop pathogens ‘remarkably adaptable’
- Replacing GDP with Gross Ecosystem Product reveals value of nature
- Climate could cause abrupt British vegetation changes
- ‘Pingers’ could save porpoises from fishing nets
- Spending time in the garden linked to better health and wellbeing
- Learn from past to protect oceans
- Unsustainable soil erosion in parts of UK
- Litter problem at England’s protected coasts
- Trial finds benefits to people and wildlife from beavers living wild in English countryside
- Zoo improvements should benefit all animals
- Cutting road transport pollution could help plants grow
- Reconnecting with nature key for sustainability
- Breakthrough in battle against invasive plants