Earlier today the Chancellor presented the 2025 Spending Review, setting out departmental budgets until 2029, and investment ...

This careers resource was jointly developed by the Biochemical Society, British Ecological Society, British Pharmacological Society, Microbiology Society, Society for Experimental Biology, Royal ...

An article on urban beekeeping from the latest issue of The Biologist has attracted widespread attention from media outlets in the UK and abroad. The author's message that urban beekeeping may not be ...

Over the past century, biologists have developed an understanding of the human body and the ability to intervene in processes at organ, cellular and sub-cellular levels. This has led to improvements ...

This is a heavily-revised version of the original publication, largely due to the many astounding advances within the plant sciences that have occurred since initial publication. Drawing from the ...

England’s ‘Green and Pleasant Land’ has long been treasured. But immediately post WW2, government policy focussed heavily on food production driven by war-time shortages. Sir Arthur Tansley and his ...

Oak trees are beautiful, and they were the wood used to construct our naval ships and the pit props for our mines. This book makes little mention of those attributes, but instead does exactly as the ...

Although global rates of deforestation are lower than when the term ‘sustainable development’ was first defined in the Brundtland Report of 1987, there are few countries where forest coverage has ...

How many people love toads? The correct answer is ‘more than you might think’. The evidence comes from the many hundreds of ‘Toads-on-Roads’ schemes dotted around the UK. In densely populated and ...

Sedentary and green, plants are perennially underestimated. Because they lack specialised organs for sensing their environment, it is often not obvious that plants are sensing at all, yet they are ...

must link the trends in alien species’ presence and abundance to impacts on local ecosystems, economists must assess the costs of these impacts, and environmental authorities need to attain accurate ...