Locals in Bangkukuk will be forced to relocate if the Gran Canal goes ahead. Photo courtesy of Tom Miller. This fall, filmmakers Tom Miller and Nuin-Tara Key with PrettyGoodProductions found…
Patagonian toothfish, often sold as Chilean seabass. Photo by: U.S. FDA. For the first time, marine conservation group, Sea Shepherd, is employing their controversial methods to protect Antarctic and Patagonian…
Known for his opposition to Chinese mine project, indigenous leader found bound and buried in Ecuador Days before José Isidro Tendetza Antún was supposed to travel to the UN Climate…
Indigenous group hopes the monument will help them protect an embattled Amazon reserve A still from the film, The Reunion, showing the Rostro Harakbut. A new short film documents the…
Experts say canal plans and impacts remain shrouded in mystery A volcanic island rises from Lake Nicaragua. Photo by Aaron Escobar/Creative Commons 2.0 "A big Christmas present"—that is how Paul…
Despite vast forest loss, the Anjouan scops owl is holding on in the Comoros Islands The Anjouan scops owl. Photo by: Alan Van Norman. The Anjouan scops owl—an elusive owl…
Overall winner of the photography categories and Animal Portraits winner: Black rhino, Zambia. Photo by: Will Burrard-Lucas. Two big—and endangered—mammals took 2014's top prizes in the world's biggest camera trap…
Most wanted environmental fugitives. Top row left to right: Adriano Giacobone, Sudiman Sunoto, Bhekumusa Mawillis Shiba and Ben Simasiku. Bottom row left to right: Nicolaas Antonius Cornelis Maria Duindam, Ariel…
Scientists propose expedition to find world's rarest chameleon: Chapman's pygmy chameleon A female Chapman's pygmy chameleon (Rhampholeon chapmanorum
World's chameleons facing potential extinction crisis The lesser chameleon (Furcifer minor) is listed as Endangered. This species is only found in Madagascar. Photo by: Christopher V. Anderson. Chameleons are an…
WARNING: graphic image below. White rhino in South Africa. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. South Africa has surpassed last year's grisly record for slaughtered rhinos—1,004—more than a month before the…
A female common earwig (Forficula auricularia) in defensive posture. The world's largest earwig has been declared extinct. Photo by: Public Domain. The world has lost a giant: this week the…
New report finds that 83 percent of recent murders of environmental activists in Peru linked to police, military, or private security guards On September 1st, indigenous activist, Edwin Chota, and…
A remote sensing image of Yellowstone National Park, regarded by many as the world's first national park. WCS, NASA, And other conservation and remote sensing agencies, universities and NGOs are…
Even if the world stopped cutting down forests, carbon dioxide emissions from land use change would still pose a major challenge, according to a new paper in Nature Climate Change.…
Overfishing has pushed the Pacific bluefin tuna from Least Concern to Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. Photo by: © Monterey Bay Aquarium - Randy Wilder. Today, 22,413 species are…
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is suddenly looking very lively after two announcements over the weekend. The U.S. has announced an initial pledge of $3 billion to the fund, while…
CORRECTION:The IUCN/SSC Tapir Specialist Group has not declared the Kabomani tapir a "unit of conservation importance" as originally reported in this article. Nor will the proposed species be receiving an…
Sunset in Namibia. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. In what will likely have major ramifications for a new climate agreement in Paris in 2015, China and the U.S. surprised everyone…
Landmark study finds that hunting and trapping also hurts tropical trees The Asian black bear (Ursus thibetanus), also known as the moon bear, is a key seed dispersal species for…
A girl stands in front of freshly dug graves in Dadaab, Kenya. The town was one of the places Somali refuges fled to during the 2011 famine, but many didn't…
This is what a million observations of species in nature look like mapped out over the world. Image courtesy of iNaturalist. On Friday, Jonathan Hiew from Singapore took a photo…
All of the world's moas exterminated by just a few thousand people A Haast's eagle divebombing a pair of moas. A new study finds that it only took a few…
50-80% of protected areas underfunded, poorly managed Yellowstone National Park was the world's first modern protected area. Photo by: Julie Larsen Maher © WCS. Protected areas are undoubtedly the world's…
Obama administration proposes to remove wolves from the ESA even as the animals spread to new states A photo of what is believed to be a gray wolf sporting an…
Scientists become increasingly stark about the choices facing humanity on global warming Debris in Tacloban, Philippines after devastating Typhoon Haiyan. Higher storm surges due to climate change are worsening damage…
An Antarctic krill. Photo by: Uwe Kils/Creative Commons 3.0. Another year, another failed attempt to protect a significant chunk of the Ross Sea, which sits off the coast of Antarctica.…
New chytrid fungus may threaten hundreds of salamander species As if amphibians weren't facing enough—a killer fungal disease, habitat destruction, pollution, and global warming—now scientists say that a second fungal…
An interview with Robin Moore, author of the new book, In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians The Cuchumatan golden toad (Incilius aurarius) from…
Male, the capital of the Maldives. One of the world's lowest lying island nations, the Maldives is on the front line of rising seas caused by global warming. Photo by:…