Fire burning in oil palm plantation in Malaysian Borneo. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. Clearing forests and other vegetation with fire in Southeast Asia can kill, according to a new…
by 13 August 2012
Scientists identified a brand new species of insect after looking at photos posted on Flickr. The insect is a type of lacewing called Semachrysa jade and lives in the forests…
by 13 August 2012
Remote camera traps have caught images of the Critically Endangered Sumatran rhino in the Leuser ecosystem in Sumatra The Leuser ecosystem is the only place in the world where Critically…
by 13 August 2012
According to the Water Center for the Humid Tropics of Latin America and the Caribbean, Belize has experienced an accelerated rate of deforestation since 2010. This means that many species…
Climate change, which is spawning more extreme temperatures variations worldwide, may be worsening the effects of a devastating fungal disease on the world's amphibians, according to new research published in…
by 13 August 2012
Scientist's have recently discovered a creature considered to be the the lion of the cave! Unexpectedly, this top predator is a Venezuelan cricket! This large, meat-eating cricket was discovered on…
Keeper, Vicky Fryson, helps a Humboldt penguin chick, Pickle, test the water for the first time. Photo by: Zoological Society of London's (ZSL) London Zoo. Humboldt penguins was found along…
African slender-snouted crocodile caught by hunters. Photo courtesy of ESI. Although founded only four years ago, Endangered Species International-Congo, has ambitious plans to protect dwindling Western gorilla populations and aid…
Comparison of carbon emissions from six leading countries. Click image to enlarge. Earlier this month the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration announced an 8 percent drop in U.S.…
Camera trap photo of Sumatran rhino in the Leuser ecosystem. Photo by: Leuser International Foundation (LIF). With the help of remote camera traps, wildlife rangers have confirmed that the Sumatran…
Pumice island. Courtesy of the Royal Navy 0810pumicefloating New Zealand's Royal Navy has found a 10,000-square mile (26,000-square kilometer) patch of pumice floating on the surface of the South Pacific…
Industrial timber plantation in Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler. Indonesia's ambitious targets for boosting pulp and paper production to make it the world's lowest-cost producer are at odds with…
Drought in America's Midwest drive corn prices to record highs on Thursday. Corn prices are up 62 percent since mid-June to due droughts and heatwaves affecting major corn-producing areas. The…
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) raised its estimate of the number of storms that will likely form during this year's Atlantic hurricane season. NOAA now predicts 12 to…
Deforestation in Belize has accelerated since late 2010, reports a new satellite-based assessment of the tiny Central American country's forest cover by CATHALAC (the Water Center for the Humid Tropics…
Hydrothermal vent in the Marianas Trench. Life on hydrothermal vents were not discovered until the late 1970s. Decades later, much remains unknown about these vents and many of them remain…
Adult green lacewing (Semachrysa jade sp. n.). Photo by Hock Ping Guek Scientists have discovered a previously unknown species of lacewing insect after stumbling upon a series of photos posted…
Various estimates of deforestation in Indonesia aggregated by time period. Note that Forest Watch Indonesia's (FWI) estimate is for the 2000-2009 period. The Ministry of Forestry's preliminary estimate for 2009/2010…
Year-to-date temperature, by month, for 2012 (red), compared to the other 117 years on record for the contiguous U.S., with the five ultimately warmest years (orange) and five ultimately coolest…
Forest elephant in Gabon. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. One of the difficulties plaguing law enforcement and authorities when it comes to tackling elephant poaching is determining where the ivory…
A new video highlights recent efforts to restore rivers in the Tongass Forest, the world's largest intact temperate rainforest. Industrial logging in vital watersheds have hurt salmon populations and other…
Fires in Tesso Nilo National Park denoted by orange dots. From June to July, hundreds of fires spread in Tesso Nilo National Park in Indonesia. Based on the data from…
Two male smooth-coated otter cubs were recently born at the Colchester Zoo. Photo by: Colchester Zoo. Smooth-coated otters (Lutrogale perspicillata) are found from India to Sumatra. They are listed as…
Hector's dolphin, the parent species of the Maui's dolphin. Photo by: James Shook. The New Zealand government's recent efforts to protect the world’s smallest dolphin have come under scrutiny from…
'Toto', a 3-week-old male elephant rescued by SOS Elephants. Photo courtesy of SOS Elephants Elephant poaching persists in southwestern Chad as poachers slaughtered more elephants on August 3, the second…
by 7 August 2012
An animal is only as good as his next meal, especially when you're a humpback whale! Due to the world's ever-changing climate, the ice that normally sends krill running has…
by 7 August 2012
Over the past 25 years, scientists have discovered 3000 new species of amphibians! This increase has brought the number of known amphibians to a total of 7000 species. In these…
An agouti in Panama. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. In order to disperse their seeds, large-fruited tropical trees probably relied on massive mammals that roamed the earth over 10,000 years…
Sira barbet (Capito fitzpatricki). Photo by: Michael G. Harvey. Four years ago in a remote cloud forest in Peru's Cerros del Sira mountain range, three recently graduated students from Cornell…
by 7 August 2012
Guyana, a country in South America has some of the most intact rainforest in the World. A new £8.5 million trust fund has been set up up to keep it…
