Low water reservoirs, reduced parking spots and a critique of EU relations: this plus some animal trivia in today’s briefing, for you from Switzerland.

Over 1,300 critically endangered snails, once thought extinct, were released on Bugio Island as part of a species recovery plan. Rediscovered after 100 years, the snails were bred in European zoos ...

Ukraine is set to deploy new "snail robots" on the frontlines of its war with Russia, allowing its forces to be supplied in tricky terrain swamped by Russian President Valdimir Putin's troops.

More than 1,300 pea-sized, critically endangered snails that were bred in a zoo have been set free to wander (very slowly) on a remote Atlantic island. The release brings two species of Desertas ...

A rare snail species that had likely become extinct in the wild was recently reintroduced to the Hawaiian landscape. Known as Achatinella fuscobasis, the snail species had dwindled to only 11 ...