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Cockroaches quickly lose sweet tooth ? to survive
People have been getting rid of cockroaches for decades by setting out bait mixed with poison. But in the late 1980s, in an apartment test kitchen in Florida, something went very wrong.
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British wildlife species in rapid decline with one in 10 at risk of extinction
Almost two thirds of British species have declined in the past 50 years and one in 10 faces the risk of extinction from our shores, according to an extensive new report into the state of Britain's nature.
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British species in rapid decline with one in 10 at risk of extinction
Almost two thirds of British species have declined in the past 50 years and one in 10 faces the risk of extinction from our shores, according to an extensive new report into the state of Britain's nature.
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200 mph winds, 12 miles of devastation: What makes a tornado?
A tornado, often known as a twister in the US, is a spinning column of air that joins a cloud (normally the moisture-rich cumulonimbus) and the ground.
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Nature's killer fury: What makes a tornado?
A tornado, often known as a twister in the US, is a spinning column of air that joins a cloud (normally the moisture-rich cumulonimbus) and the ground.
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Nature's lethal fury: What makes a tornado?
A tornado, often known as a twister in the US, is a spinning column of air that joins a cloud (normally the moisture-rich cumulonimbus) and the ground.
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What a pong! After a seven year wait, the world's smelliest 'flower' blooms in Cornwall
Breaking into the flat of a long dead spinster whose cats have been left to fend for themselves would be a harrowing experience, but it would at least prepare the nostrils for a sniff of the Titan Arum.
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Nature Studies: Cross the Atlantic in a ship? The beautiful Monarch can do better than that
Britain is pretty poorly off for butterflies, all things considered, with a measly 58 breeding species: cross the Channel and you?ll find nearly five times as many. So something that sets your average British butterfly-lover?s heart a-thumping is the occasional chance meeting with a rare migrant from elsewhere.
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Farming in the British Isles is on the verge of a dramatic step towards industrialisation with the establishment of "mega-farms" for salmon, pigs and cows, which opponents claim put the environment and human health at risk. The Government signalled its backing yesterday for large-scale farms ahead of an announcement this week of a timetable for plans for a 25,000-capacity pig farm in Derbyshire. A decision on a planned 1,000-cow dairy unit in Wales is also imminent.
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An Essex landfill site which once took 15 per cent of all London's rubbish has been ingeniously transformed into a nature reserve. The tip, full to a depth of 30 metres with the capital's garbage, was first covered with earth and then turned into grassland. Here, and in adjacent wetland and wooded areas, hundreds of rare species now thrive.
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Britain's migratory birds stay away as climate change moves their wintering areas further north
Migratory waterbirds have shifted their wintering areas north-eastwards due to Europe's changing climate, scientists have revealed.
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Marine biology: Appeal launched to find rare Madagascan fish
A worldwide appeal has been launched to find a mate for the last remaining males of a fish on the brink of extinction. The Mangarahara cichlid, from Madagascar, is believed to have vanished from the wild as a result of the building of dams on the Mangarahara River.
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The greater wax moth has the best hearing of any animal in the world ? a discovery which has the potential to revolutionise microphone technology in everything from mobile phones to hearing aids.
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The greater wax moth has the best hearing of any animal in the world ? a discovery which has the potential to revolutionise microphone technology in everything from mobile phones to hearing aids.
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Nature Studies: The disappearing turtle dove
It?s a legendary creature, no doubt about that. For centuries, it was seen as the symbol of true love. Its springtime call is celebrated in the Bible. It features in one of our best-known Christmas carols. Yet the turtle dove is declining so rapidly that it may be gone from Britain, the latest analysis suggests, by 2021.
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This year heralds the invasion of billions of cicadas, with their distinctive black bodies and bulging red eyes set to overrun a 900-mile stretch of the US East Coast as the insects crawl out of the earth after 17 years underground.
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How our fens were sacrificed for more farms
Very few parts of the British landscape have eluded great change in the past 1,000 years, but none of them have suffered a loss which can remotely compare to that of the fens of eastern England. These vast wetlands ? at times desolate but always teeming with wildlife ? once stretched from just above Cambridge to north Yorkshire.
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Exclusive: Pesticides ban makes it a triple whammy for farmers
Britain?s long-suffering farmers will see their costs soar by £200m a year after the European Union voted this week to ban nerve-agent pesticides blamed for causing mass die-offs in bees, the National Farmers? Union (NFU) has claimed.
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Cuckoo opted for reverse migration after 4,000-mile trip from Congo
It was meant to be journey?s end; the culmination of the cuckoo?s 4,000-mile quest to hunt African caterpillars before returning to England to become the sound of the spring.
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Nothing signifies spring quite like blossom mixed with birdsong
If we were looking, in the great tradition of modern advertising, for simple, instantly-graspable signifiers for the seasons, we would doubtless characterise summer by sunshine, autumn by falling leaves and winter by snow.
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Badger flash mob targets Defra in protest against cull soundtracked by Brian May
A badger flash-mob protested today against a Government-led cull of the animals, outside the Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (Defra).
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'Badger' flash mob target Defra in protest again cull
A badger flash-mob protested today against a Government-led cull of the animals, outside the Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (Defra).
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Environmentalists hailed a "victory for bees" today after the European Union voted for a ban on the nerve-agent pesticides blamed for the dramatic decline global bee populations.
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'Victory for bees' as Europe bans neonicotinoid pesticides blamed for destroying bee population
Environmentalists hailed a "victory for bees" today after the European Union voted for a ban on the nerve-agent pesticides blamed for the dramatic decline global bee populations.
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Environmentalists hailed a "victory for bees" today after the European Union voted for a ban on the nerve-agent pesticides blamed for the dramatic decline global bee populations.
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