From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Biodiversity is great in theory, but there are reasons to fend off invasive species and the knock-on effect of their presence Britain would be a wasteland if it weren’t for immigration. Fifteen ...

I recently read a fascinating book by Cambridge University zoologist Dr. Arik Kershenbaum called The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal About Aliens—and Ourselves. I totally ...

Introduced species generally get a bad press – but not all alien invaders are villains, says Ken Thompson in Where Do Camels Belong? WE HAVE all heard a lot of bad stuff about introduced species: they ...

Erik Irmer has been documenting the spread of invasive plant and animal species that disrupt native ecology across Europe. He focuses on humans’ interactions with these plants and animals. Aliens is ...

ALIEN plant and animal invaders in Scotland are to be targeted by ministers. The Scottish Executive will be one of the bodies represented on a UK group with the task of advising on the the best way of ...

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In the Persian/Arabian Gulf, idle ships have gathered marine biofouling species which cling to their hulls. With the ...

Alien species could be harbouring a variety of unknown germs which might have serious consequences for its new environment, scientists have claimed. Invasive species, which are sometimes known as ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...