An elusive species of feline has been discovered to inhabit a much bigger range than was ever previously imagined. The rare and enigmatic Andean cat (Leopardus jacobita) was once thought to be ...

Habitat loss is possibly the greatest threat to the natural world. Every living thing needs somewhere to live, find food and reproduce. This is known as its habitat. In order for a species to be ...

Every cow, on average, produces 80kg to 100kg (CH4) of methane per year, a gas that has the nasty habit of depleting the ozone layer. The reason for this is enteric - in other words, it's related to ...

Brookesia micra sp. n. from Nosy Hara, northern Madagascar. (A) adult male measuring 16mm on black background, showing orange tail colouration; (B) juvenile on finger tip; (C) juvenile on head of a ...

With the recent realisation that mercury can transform itself in the stratosphere, then pollute the atmosphere below, we are finally coming to terms with the enormous extent to which we have (along ...

An 18 month investigation has uncovered UK firms dumping thousands of tonnes of illegal e-waste in west Africa. Instead of recycling old computers, PCs, printers, telephones, mobile phones and stereos ...

Costa Rica has long been renowned for its incredible biodiversity; a small, yet environmentally rich country that is home to over 5% of the entire world's animal and plant species. Lying along its ...

too few remaining members for sustainable breeding. A study in Nature suggested the without some form of radical change 25% of the world's land animals will become extinct within the next 50 years.

The phrase 'global warming' has been thrown about so much, in the ongoing debate over dangers of man-made climate change, that it can seem more like a dark shadow on the horizon, than an imminent ...

Pig breeding is big business, but in order to make money the producer must have a large number of pigs. One of the problems is that a large number of pigs produces a large amount of waste. This is the ...

Sustainable Transport is sometimes known as Green Transport and it is any form of transport that does not use or rely on dwindling natural resources. Instead it relies on renewable or regenerated ...

You might want to hunt wild sheep, but there are several reasons why you may want to up your weapon resources, especially if you are a Pleistocene human. Mouflon rams ...