Rebecca Ratcliffe

Listening to birdsong is one of life's great joys, but when researchers heard a particular tune emerging from a tree in a Buenos Aires park, they were especially jubilant.

Read this exciting story from The Guardian October 14, 2026 issue. Listening to birdsong is one of life’s great joys, but when researchers heard a particular tune emerging from a tree in a Buenos Aires park, they were especially jubilant.

As a surge in beekeepers has lead to increased numbers of honeybees, researchers record them pushing bumblebees and other rival species away from flowers

This month’s biodiversity summit in Yerevan, Armenia, aims to push governments to meet the 23 targets agreed at Cop15 in 2022

This month, nearly every country on Earth will return to the question of how to stem the rapid destruction of the natural world.

When populations fall, fledglings can struggle to learn the right notes to attract mates. But research on how birds communicate offers hope for species’ survival.

Big pharmaceutical companies have been accused of “free-riding on nature”, after a landmark biodiversity fund that invites businesses to put some of their profits back into conservation was left virtually empty.

The Cali Fund, set up to raise $1bn a year for biodiversity from drug companies, remains near empty

The Armenian capital Yerevan is chock-a-block right now with officials, scientists and environmentalists from all over the world gathering for Cop17.

Read this exciting story from The Guardian October 23, 2026 issue. Big pharmaceutical companies have been accused of “free-riding on nature”, after a biodiversity fund that invites businesses to put some of their profits back into conservation was left virtually empty.