Hurricanes can be a devastating force—leveling trees, erasing beaches and damaging homes. But what do they do to wildlife? The answer ranges from the good to the bad to the ugly. Hurricanes sometimes ...

Giant African harvester ants are being smuggled out of East Africa and sold on the black market. Here's why collectors want ...

Scientists from Macquarie University have come up with an innovative way to stop cane toads killing native wildlife by training goannas to avoid eating the deadly amphibians. A landmark study ...

A £3.7million bridge will be unveiled next month in Surrey to help snakes, toads and even cows cross the road. National Highways, which maintains Britain’s motorways and major A-roads, said the ...

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 ...

A U.K. conversation group that helps toads of Nant-y-Ffrith reservoir's each claims that the water company never informed them of the scheduled maintenance Matarezo/Andia/Universal Images Group via ...

A new study comparing invasive cane toads in Japan and Australia has found substantial changes in body size and shape have developed much more rapidly than suggested by long-held ideas of the pace of ...

Conservationists in Denbighshire ‘angry and heartbroken’ after Nant-y-Ffrith site emptied during breeding season More than 1,000 toads may have died after a reservoir important to the local ecosystem ...

...to get to the other side of course! More than 3,000 toads, frogs and newts have been helped to cross a busy road in Bath to safely reach their breeding lake. Around 50 volunteers from the ...

African policymakers are intensifying calls for reforms to the global sovereign debt restructuring system, urging the International Monetary Fund(IMF) to address persistent delays and coordination ...

Volunteers helped 1,500 toads to the breeding ground this year - four times as many as in 2025 A group that helped more than 1,000 toads reach their breeding ground safely say they fear the creatures ...

A group that helped more than 1,000 toads reach their breeding ground safely say they fear the creatures have died after a reservoir was drained. Members of Wrexham Toad Patrols ensure the amphibians ...