The international scientific journal 'Nature' featured on its cover this week a silvereye, a bird found in New Zealand, perched on a Chilean rhubarb. This silvereye eats the fruit of the Chilean ...

Beneath the icy silence of Antarctica's famous Dry Valleys lies a world so unusual that it often resembles another planet. Invisible to the naked eye, microscopic organisms survive in some of the ...

Seeds and plants accidentally brought to Antarctica by tourists and scientists may introduce alien plant species which could threaten the survival of native plants in the finely balanced ecosystem.

Conservation scientists are sounding warning bells over ‘stealth invader’ species that they say are destroying local biodiversity and changing landscapes. This has in turn posed a chicken-and-egg ...