From barn owls preparing their nests, to early sightings of black oil beetles - spring is arriving in the UK a lot earlier than it used to. A recent report into when flowers bloom found that spring ...

SOON the swallows will come swooping back to Scotland from South Africa, a traditional sign that winter has ended. It may seem as if all is as nature intended, but it is not. Swallows are now arriving ...

Punxsutawney Phil, America's most famous groundhog, emerged from his burrow yesterday to the glare of cameras and the cheers of thousands of spectators and offered his annual weather prognostication: ...