Holland Park's Donizetti is set on an industrial farm and its hero wears a boiler suit, but the warmth of the singing still melts hearts

Angry parents take to the streets after deadly outbreak of sickness at school in northern India

More than a third of the world’s conifer species are threatened with extinction as a result of urbanisation, logging, disease and feral goats, according to an alarming new report.

Britons bask in a (short) golden glow

The Government is launching an “urgent and comprehensive” review of why bees are declining and what is being done to help them.

A third of Britain's honeybee colonies perished in the winter following the wettest summer in 100 years last year, according to a new survey.

Leading UK scientists accused the Government of abusing science today after the EU strongly criticised the research it used to justify its position on the nerve agent pesticides widely linked to declining bee populations.

German cockroaches evolved to avoid glucose-based baits in household bug killers

EU action on bees comes on top of huge losses and the coldest March for 50 years

2015 ‘will see change in UK government’

Peregrine Falcons are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act and the company can not legally access the mast until any chicks had fledged

Horatio Clare asks why the Government won't ban the worst pesticides

Ringmaster Robert Birk tells Tony Paterson how 60 new recruits kept his show on the road

“Nerve agent” pesticides should be banned until science has established whether they are to blame for the rate at which bumblebees and other insects are vanishing from the countryside, a committee of MPs has urged.