Researchers have created the world’s largest ancient human gene bank, and used it to map the historical spread of genes – and diseases – over time as populations migrated.
Butterfly populations in northern Spain are better than their UK counterparts at regulating their body temperature, but rising global temperatures may put Spanish butterflies at greater risk of extinction.
Promoting climate-friendly behaviours will be more successful in societies where everyone has the capacity: financially, physically, and timewise, to make changes.
Meet the winner of the Vice-Chancellor's Awards 2023 for Research Impact and Engagement and learn more about their projects.
The Established Academic for 2023 is Professor William Sutherland and his research team at Conservation Evidence.
Wild honeyguide birds prefer to cooperate with people who have learned local cultural traditions to find and access honey-filled bees’ nests, a new study has found.
Victorian collector traded human Aboriginal remains for scientific accolades, study reveals
Researchers hoping to rebrand a marine pest as a nutritious food have developed the world’s first system of farming shipworms, which they have renamed ‘Naked Clams’.
Other threats to UK forests include competition with society for water, viral diseases, and extreme weather affecting forest management.
A new way to price carbon credits could encourage desperately needed investment in forest preservation and boost vital progress towards net-zero.
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