I have been following the Springwatch team for the past few series - along with Autumnwatch. It is a wonderful documentary style programme; often live; always upto the minute, following the lives of wild animals, birds & insects across the UK.

fisheries regulators have banned trawling for bluefin tuna from next week in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean to stop overfishing of a species that is approaching stock collapse

Wind and nuclear power plants have the lowest potential impact on wildlife among the major U.S. electricity sources, according to a report examining several decades of research.

How does a parasite found in kitty litter get into whales and dolphins? By hitching a ride down the sewage pipe and into anchovy guts, say researchers. Gloeta Massie and Michael Black of California Polytechnic State University say this could explain why

Hundreds of the nation's most prominent scientists and economists have issued a first-ever joint statement calling on policymakers to require immediate, deep reductions in heat-trapping emissions that cause global warming.

Once considered a barren plain dotted with hydrothermal vents, the seafloors rocky regions appear to be teeming with microbial life.

The world's wildlife has declined by 27 percent since 1970 because of the human impact on the environment, the World Wildlife Fund said Friday.

The Spanish government will go ahead fishing immature red tuna in the Mediterranean Sea, as General Director of Fishery Resources and Aquaculture, Fernando Curcio spoke out defending the legality to this over-fishing as 'issue of minor importance'.

Our seas are on the brink of an ecological catastrophe, but as scientific guidelines are ignored and catches become ever bigger due to industrial-scale overfishing, the international community has failed to act.

Brazil plans to massively expand the production of biofuels but environmental campaigners worry about the effect this will have on the rainforest.