Natural World

One third of the world’s food production depends on honey bees but they’re battling climate change, pesticides and our insatiable appetite for the liquid gold to survive. On National Honey Bee Day, we lift the sticky lid on the lives of these industrious insects

Experts are excited about the use of halophytes not only as new ingredient but as a plant that could even help combat the climate crisis

The climate crisis, light pollution, commercial fishing and even dazzling skyscrapers all play havoc with our feathered friends’ migratory journeys

Long protected by Mumbai’s tribal communities, can the city’s famously adaptable urban leopards survive urbanisation and sterilisation?

Enjoy your favourite chocolate bars while you can because by 2050 chocolate could be extinct due to climate change, deforestation and global warming

Scientists say they are close to bringing the extinct dodo back to life – using chickens as surrogates

Key to thriving ecosystems, carrion-eating vultures are in a desperate flight for survival. Can protected flyways, rubber-coated power lines and vulture ‘restaurants’ save them from global extinction?

The Wildlife Rescue Program in Abu Dhabi is celebrating the rescue and rehabilitation of almost one thousand sea turtles with a ‘Turtle 1000’ release expected this summer

Within two years, two-thirds of the planet could be facing what the UN calls ‘water stress’ with the potential for conflict reaching boiling point