Iridescent sweat bees, hairy-faced mining bees, tiny Perdita minima the size of a gnat. Thanks to swarms of apiary ...

An army of experts and citizen scientists devoted to documenting and protecting the country’s native bees is telling us a lot ...

Multiple studies suggest butterflies are disappearing- but why, and what can be done? Here are some possible answers, backed by science.

A new method of examining gene expression patterns called landscape transcriptomics may help pinpoint what causes bumble bees stress and could eventually give insight into why bee populations are ...

Recovered grasslands need more than 75 years of continuous management to regain their biodiversity because specialized pollinators are slow to return. A new finding underscores the importance of ...

Their biggest threat: humans. No trace of the wild South China tiger, Panthera tigris amoyensis (critically endangered, possibly extinct in the wild), has been seen for more than a decade.

A rare beetle might be extinct in England after a survey failed to confirm any sightings, a charity said. Conservation charity Buglife asked for the public's help last year to find evidence of the ...

Last year scientists warned that the species was declining by around 8% every year and could become extinct within a decade. The court has imposed no-fishing zones around the breeding colonies to ...

Italy is often thought of as a political laboratory, anticipating events in other countries: fascism in the 1920s; the showman-businessman turned politician in the 1990s; populism in the 2010s. Great ...

Satellites connect people around the world but they also interfere with astronomers’ views of the cosmos. There are ways to reduce these tensions.