While the red listing of more mushrooms and their relatives has been welcomed, the results paint a worrying picture. Almost a ...

Explore the biggest challenges facing our planet and the nature-based solutions that can help us to create a more sustainable ...

What better time than spring for our programme of family-friendly events and activities celebrating life on Earth? Bring your family along and take part in talks, crafts and tours exploring ...

The Natural History Museum’s new permanent gallery, Fixing Our Broken Planet, opens tomorrow, Thursday 3 April Visitors will explore the biggest challenges facing the planet and discover ...

Researchers have revisited a remote site in the Pacific Ocean that was used as a test for deep-sea mining in the 1970s. They ...

Rare evidence about cyclidan crustaceans has been uncovered in the USA, revealing more about how they behaved.

A once-in-a-lifetime experience; nowhere else in Europe can visitors touch a fragment of the Moon, snap a selfie holding a piece of Mars and lay their hands on a meteorite older than Earth.

New observations have revealed early signs of UV light illuminating the cosmos more than 13 billion years ago.

Find answers to your big nature questions. Delve into stories about our research, scientists and the collections we care for. Uncover the history of life on Earth, from the smallest insects to the ...

A new study has revealed the long-term impacts and the first signs of biological recovery four decades after a test mining experiment that removed polymetallic nodules in the Pacific Ocean. The ...

Taxonomy is the science that attempts to categorise the many millions of species on Earth. Find out how to define taxonomy, what taxonomists do and why classifying life is so important. The definition ...

The Natural History Museum Ice Rink has now closed. After an incredible 16 years of ice skating at the Museum, the five-acre gardens on which the rink used to sit have now been transformed into a hub ...