EASTCOURT, England—The bane of Britain’s great and powerful is a couple of inches long, has warty skin and a bright orange underbelly—and the power to disrupt some of their most heartfelt ambitions.

John and Margaret Histed own a beautiful English farmhouse in the heart of rural Wiltshire - to the south west of London. Last summer, during a series of almost Biblical rainstorms, their home was ...

Boris Johnson today joins the fight to save the humble British newt after the aquatic amphibians threatened to derail his plan for a swimming pool. The former prime minister, writing exclusively for ...

GREAT crested newts have been growing in population in two new Hampshire freshwater ponds. A small colony of the protected species which were discovered at Broadmead Trees, part of Hillier Gardens and ...