A virus originally found in animals, mpox -- which causes the disease of the same name -- is now circulating in humans. Since 2022, it has been the cause of major epidemics spreading outside endemic ...

Animals at West Midlands Safari Park have been helping spread the love this Valentine’s Day, having been gifted some custom-made Love ...

Three vegan restaurants are participating in this year's event, as more Black-owned vegan and vegan-friendly eateries pop up ...

Some efforts to preserve or rewild natural habitats are shifting harmful land use to other parts of the world—and this could ...

Six zebras wore video cameras attached to collars, capturing the equines’ daily life. Sticking with giraffes may let the two species protect each other.

Summer brings warmer temperatures and longer days, and of course that means spending more time outdoors. Unfortunately, it ...

Moving, tragic, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the past week.

If what feels like the longest, coldest winter has you daydreaming about hot sun, arid plains and majestic beasts, a week or ...

Charity workers were left "shocked" after finding a python abandoned outside a block of flats. The metre-long (3ft) snake was ...

South Africa has submitted more than 50 species to the Red List of threatened species every year for the past three years from the Richtersveld region alone due to expanding diamond mining, ongoing ...

Sam Nujoma, the fiery freedom fighter who led Namibia to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990 and served as its ...