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Bonobos can recognize ignorance and help, a new ‘milestone’ in ape intelligence

Shanna Hanbury 18 Feb 2025

Camera trap films two rare black wolves in Poland

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Feb 2025

Cargill weakens Amazon no-deforestation vow, raising concerns about wider backslide

Shanna Hanbury 13 Feb 2025

‘Truffle dogs’ help sniff out two new truffle species

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Feb 2025

Petition calls on EPA to tighten pesticide rules to protect bees

Bobby Bascomb 12 Feb 2025

Wild baboons don’t recognize their own mirror reflections

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Feb 2025

Indigenous protests in Brazil topple law seen as threat to rural schools

Shanna Hanbury 7 Feb 2025

January 2025 was warmest on record as climate change ‘overwhelms’ La Niña’s cooling

Shanna Hanbury 6 Feb 2025

One-third of food giants ignore fertilizer risks, report finds

Shanna Hanbury 3 Feb 2025

Over 1,100 dead olive ridley turtles wash ashore in southern India

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Jan 2025

Banner image of the spoon-billed sandpaper dubbed K9, courtesy of Dongming Li.

World’s tiniest transmitter finds nesting area of rarest migratory shorebird

Kristine Sabillo 24 Jan 2025

US set to lose out as Trump retreats from climate agreement, NGOs warn

Kristine Sabillo 23 Jan 2025

Floods devastate tortoise sanctuary in southern Madagascar

Shanna Hanbury 23 Jan 2025

Maasai herder in Morogoro, not far from Ruaha National Park. Image by Shengena Killel/IFRI via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

World Bank cancels $150m tourism project in Tanzania after abuse claims

Ashoka Mukpo 23 Jan 2025

‘Unusual’ and weak La Niña confirmed, offers cooling respite after record El Niño

Shanna Hanbury 20 Jan 2025

A venomous Australian spider turns out to be 3 species, not 1

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Jan 2025

Mongabay documentary spotlights Indigenous alliance to protect Amazon headwaters

Shanna Hanbury 16 Jan 2025

Brazil’s Amazon shipping plan faces criticism for environmental and social impact

Mongabay.com 15 Jan 2025

Surviving fire but not the toxins as modern homes, full of plastic, burn

Mongabay.com 14 Jan 2025

New alert system can track changes in grasslands, farms, temperate forests

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Jan 2025

Bonobo numbers in DRC park stable, but signs of decline appear

Shreya Dasgupta 10 Jan 2025

At least 11,500 deaths linked to extreme weather in 2024

Shanna Hanbury 9 Jan 2025

Near-extinct Siberian crane is recovering thanks to habitat protection

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Jan 2025

Climate change fueled record extreme weather events in 2024

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Jan 2025

As polar ice caps melt, how are ‘Christmas animals’ faring?

Kristine Sabillo 24 Dec 2024

Science brings the bloom of farming to a Brazilian desert

Mongabay.com 24 Dec 2024

Officials pledge zoo review after Sumatran elephant is killed in Bali flood

Luh De Suriyani 19 Dec 2024

European Commission to review Greek oil activity permits in whale habitat

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Dec 2024

Banner image of Galaxea astreata coral colony in Nusa Penida in Bali, Indonesia, courtesy of Ocean Gardener.

Scientists in Bali find what could be the world’s largest coral colony

Kristine Sabillo 17 Dec 2024

Landmark ICJ climate change hearing concludes; opinion expected in 2025

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Dec 2024

Water returns to Amazon rivers amid historic drought

Shanna Hanbury 12 Dec 2024

Banner image of four storms over the Western Pacific Ocean in November 2024, by NASA Earth Observatory via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Philippines’ ‘extraordinary’ typhoon season was climate-fueled: Scientists

Kristine Sabillo 12 Dec 2024

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