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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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

This 5-lesson course, suitable for KS2 classes and co-created with the LEGO Group, explores how humans impact the planet, using the example of birds. Watch short clips of Greta Thunberg, Museum ...

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 ...

Browse the oldest and most important entomology collection in the world with over 30 million insects. Gathered over 300 years, these specimens are key to telling the history of collecting, the science ...