WARNING: video is graphic. A Greenpeace video, using footage from a whistleblower, shows disturbing images of the tuna industry operating in the unregulated waters of the Pacific Ocean. Using fish…
Juvenile African bush elephant in Kenya. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. Abdullahi Mohammed, an wildlife ranger, was killed in the line of duty in Kenya this weekend by elephant poachers.…
Scaptia beyonceae. Photo by: Bryan Lessard, CSIRO. Musical artist, and dancer extraordinare, Beyoncé has been awarded a new honor this week: entomologists in Australia have named a new horse fly…
Minke whale kabob served up at the Sea Baron restaurant in Reykjavik Harbour area, Iceland. Photo by:Thjurexoell. How do you end a decades-long conflict between culture and conservation? How do…
A new study in Biology Letters has found that warmer temperatures may make lizards smarter, even as past studies have linked a global decline in lizards to climate change. Looking…
The new species Paedophryne amauensis is the world's smallest vertebrate...so far. Photo from: Rittmeyer EN et al. (2012) Ecological Guild Evolution and the Discovery of the World's Smallest Vertebrate. PLoS…
Graph covers observed temperatures through 2009 and projected temperatures thereafter under various scenarios including cutting methane, black carbon, and carbon, all relative to the 1890–1910 mean. The rightmost bars give…
Brazil akan melancarkan satu resolusi berkenaan sistem kawalan penyahutanan yang berkemampuan untuk mengesan kegiatan pembersihan hutan menerusi keadaan di bawah awan. Menteri Alam Sekitar, Izabella Teixeira, menerusi kenyataannya pada Isnin…
Transporting a stranded pygmy killer whale back to the wild. All photos by: Scubazoo. On Tuesday a female pygmy killer whale (Feresa attenuata) was found stranded on Tanjung Aru beach,…
Associated Press melaporkan bahawa saintis telah menemui dua spesis dinosaur di Utah yang sehingga kini belum diketahui spesisnya. Spesis tersebut telah dihuraikan dalam jurnal terbaru PLoS ONE. Kedua-dua spesis tersebut…
Associated Press melaporkan bahawa saintis telah menemui dua spesis dinosaur di Utah yang sehingga kini belum diketahui spesisnya. Spesis tersebut telah dihuraikan dalam jurnal terbaru PLoS ONE. Kedua-dua spesis tersebut…
Indonesia could have earned $5 billion in revenue and avoided 1 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions between 2000 and 2005 had a reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD+)…
An investigation by Brazil's Federal Police has detailed a significant trade of illegally logged rainforest wood by Peruvian nationals making its way from northern Brazil to the U.S. and Mexico,…
New fish trap that allows unwanted fish to escape wins conservation award. Photo by: Tim McClanahan/WCS. An innovative fish trap that allows small non-target fish to escape has won a…
The elusive bay cat, taken by motion-triggered camera-trap in the Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. Copyright: J. Brodie & A. Giordano. Although known to science for 138 years, almost…
The number of species identified by scientists as vulnerable to climate change continues to rise along with the Earth's temperature. Recent studies have found that a warmer world is leading…
Greater one-horned rhino in Nepal. Photo courtesy of WWF. As rhinos again fell to poachers in record numbers in 2011, there was one bright-spot: Nepal. Not a single rhino was…
Close-up from world's first photo of a living Myanmar snub-nosed monkey. Photo by: FFI/BANCA/PRCF. In 2010 researchers described a new species of primate that reportedly sneezes when it rains. Unfortunately,…
New shrimp species crowd the world's deepest undersea vents. Photo by: University of Southampton/National Oceanography Center (NOC). It sounds like a medieval vision of hell: in pitch darkness, amid blazing…
Intensive palm oil production is expanding at the expense of biolologically-rich lowland rainforests in the Peruvian Amazon, reports a study published in Environmental Research Letters. The research indicates that enthusiasm…
Government-subsidized colonization of the Amazon rainforest remains an important driver of forest loss in Brazil, but has mixed economic value, argues a paper published in Biological Conservation. Carlos Peres and…
View Larger Map A protest in which 28 Indonesian sewed their mouths shut has led to an inquiry into a logging concession on Padang Island. The Ministry of Forestry has…
New study associates sharp decline in Amazon deforestation with increase in food production. Soy and forest in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Photo by Rhett A. Butler. A sharp drop in deforestation…
Scanning electron microscope image shows the upper leaf surface of Philcoxia minensis. Arrows point to nematodes and sand grains. A worm measuring only a millimeter in length scoots its way…
An adult male blackthroat Foping National Nature Reserve, Shaanxi, China, June 2011. © Per Alström. A species of robin with a black head, aptly named the blackthroat (Luscinia obscura), had…
An interview with Kara Moses, a part of our on-going Interviews with Young Scientists series. Kara Moses with the ruffed lemurs at Dudley Zoo, conducting undergraduate research. Kara Moses may…
A Hawaiian monk seal at Hana Maui, Hawaii . Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. To date three Hawaiian monk seals (Monachus schauinslandi), and possibly a fourth mortality under investigation, have…
A new species of mouse lemur has been discovered in eastern Madagascar, report researchers from Germany. The species is described in a recent issue of the journal Primates. The diminutive…
Wind turbine in Morris, Minnesota. Photo by: Jeremy Hance. Global media reporting on climate change issues was down again last year, according to a new analysis from The Daily Climate.…
The Alangyi coastline. Photo by: Pierre Fidenci. Voters in the January 14 Taiwanese presidential election will decide the fate of the island’s last pristine wilderness known as the Alangyi Trail.…
