Natural World

The world’s largest land mammal is still struggling to be herd. On World Elephant Day we blow the trumpet for these magnificent megafauna…

From wildfires in Syria to droughts in Iraq and Iran, the Middle East is feeling the sting of global warming and the climate crisis more acutely than many other regions. Is there a way out?

Speared, poisoned and poached for their body parts, lions are becoming increasingly vulnerable and could be extinct by 2050 if we don’t help save them

From the shocking discovery that we consume around a credit card’s worth of microplastics every week, to the fact plastics are in the air that we breathe, there are many reasons why we need to turn the tap off on plastic waste

Is there a solution to the complex relationship between our dinner plates and the health of our marine ecosystems, and can our growing demand for seafood really ever be sustainable?

Ben Lamm is a man on a Jurassic Park-style mission to bring the woolly mammoth – and the dodo – back from the dead.

Meet the Black Mambas, a team of 36 young African women who protect 20,000 hectares of South Africa’s Greater Kruger National Park, safeguarding the world’s largest population of rhinos

A study off the coast of Brazil has revealed traces of cocaine in the liver and muscles of sharks, unveiling the detrimental effects of drug pollution on marine life

From flightless parrots to secretive cetaceans, these are some of the planet’s most endangered species trying to claw their way back from the brink of extinction