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 ...

Biodiversity is great in theory, but there are reasons to fend off invasive species and the knock-on effect of their presence Britain would be a wasteland if it weren’t for immigration. Fifteen ...

Rats are among the alien species which have caused global extinctions. Pictured: Rats eat grains of puffed rice in Allahabad on July 28, 2015. Getty Images/Sanjay Kanojia Maybe it's a good thing we ...

The European Commission proposed today (9 September) a new regulation to list and ban invasive alien species of plants and animals that are not welcome in Europe. There are currently more than 12,000 ...

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alien beings living on a distant world around another star would look 'just like animals on Earth' and be formed from the same processes, an astrobiologist claims. Arik Kershenbaum, author of a new ...

ALIEN plant and animal invaders in Scotland are to be targeted by ministers. The Scottish Executive will be one of the bodies represented on a UK group with the task of advising on the the best way of ...

More than 2,500 alien plant species could find suitable conditions in the Arctic, especially in northern Norway and Svalbard.

An ' alien life form' has been spotted crawling along the ground - and has baffled everyone who has seen it. The strange creature looks like "an alien life form that has got lost on earth" after it ...

An ' alien life form' has been spotted crawling along the ground - and has baffled everyone who has seen it. The strange creature looks like "an alien life form that has got lost on earth" after it ...