Growing stretches of the English countryside are “falling behind a paywall,” campaigners warn as national parks grapple with drastic funding cuts.

Campaigners say designation promotes unsustainable sheep farming at expense of nature recovery and local communities

Pebble found in central Spain features what is thought to be world’s oldest fingerprint, and represents a nose One day around 43,000 years ago, a Neanderthal man in what is now central Spain came across a large granite pebble whose pleasing contours and indentations snagged his eye. Something in the shape of that quartz-rich stone – perhaps its odd resemblance to an elongated face – may have compelled him to pick it up, study it and, eventually, to dip one of his fingers in red pigment and press it against the pebble’s edge, exactly where the nose on that face would have been. Continue reading...

MPs had previously backed Conservative amendment to ask developers to provide hollow bricks for endangered birds

Mam Tor in the Peak District has become strangely popular, but what effect is this having?

The marshmallow treats were reportedly put on a no-fly list after erupting in a cockpit in 1965.

Myths and fables from across the UK are illustrated in the set of stamps.