Storks in southwest Poland are disappearing at an alarming rate, says a disturbing new report.

Researchers from Poland and Norway are investigating how ponds in cities differ from those outside, as well as their condition and possible negative impact on aquatic species.

Whiskered tern females are faithful to their partners and do not mate with other males, new research has shown.

Microscopic invertebrates known as tardigrades have been found to ‘hitch a lift’ on the back of snails to ‘conquer areas faster’ than they could otherwise do.

Bears in Peru are facing extinction as humans encroach upon their natural habitats, scientists have warned.

How does car tyre dust present near motorways affect the life of selected invertebrates? Scientists from Poland, Lithuania, Italy and France will check. With time, it will be possible to identify plant species that will reduce the range of dust in the most exposed areas.

Scientists from the Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection of the University of Lodz investigate how urbanization affects changes in bird organisms at the genetic level and how their resistance changes due to living in an urban environment.

Urbanization causes evolutionary changes in plants. An international team of researchers has demonstrated this on the example of white clover, which adapts in a similar way to the urban environment in different cities around the world. Professor Marta Szulkin from the Centre of New Technologies at the University of Warsaw is a co-author of the publication on this subject.

In the 1970s, 47 thousand birds per year died in fishing nets as a result of bycatch, in the 1980s and 1990s it was about 40,000 birds, and in the second decade of the 21st century - approx. 21 thousand birds, according to new data analyses concerning Polish waters. The scale of bird bycatch was previously seriously underestimated.