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A farmer uses a manure spreader as a natural fertilizer. An excess of manure from livestock produces an excess of ammonia, a harmful nitrogen emission. Image by CityofGeneva via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Nitrogen: The environmental crisis you haven’t heard of yet

Ashoka Mukpo 22 Sep 2021

When a tree falls in the forest, you can still hear the birdsong

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 22 Sep 2021
California condor flying

Thanks to the Yurok Tribe, condors will return to the Pacific Northwest

Rachel Fritts 21 Sep 2021

Fires in the Amazon have already impacted 90% of plant and animal species

Suzana Camargo 21 Sep 2021

The cat is back: Wild Amur tigers rebound in China, thanks to govt policies

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Sep 2021
Clouded leopard in India. Photo credit: Steve Winter/National Geographic

Small cats should be a conservation priority, says Panthera’s new board chair Jonathan Ayers

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Sep 2021

What the Mauritius kestrel can teach us about wildlife reintroductions

Marlowe Starling 20 Sep 2021

Sea turtles: Can these great marine migrators navigate rising human threats?

Elizabeth Devitt 20 Sep 2021
gorilla

Domestic bushmeat consumption an “urgent” threat to migratory mammals, U.N. says

Carolyn Cowan 20 Sep 2021
Photo credit: Samantha du Toit

‘Conservation should be seen as what communities have always done’, says John Kamanga

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Sep 2021

With coral cover halved, curbing climate change is only way to slow the loss

Malavika Vyawahare 17 Sep 2021

Faroe Islands to evaluate traditional hunt after slaughter of 1,400 dolphins

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 17 Sep 2021
Chimpanzee

Scientists look to chimps’ past to gauge their future under climate change

Carolyn Cowan 17 Sep 2021

The secret lives of common hippos | Candid Animal Cam

Romina Castagnino 17 Sep 2021

The Pantanal is burning again. Will it be another devastating year?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 16 Sep 2021

Creation of three new northern white rhinos embryos may indicate hope for other rhino species

Ashley Stumvoll 16 Sep 2021
Yellowfin tuna image by Martin Gil Gallo. via the Creative Commons, CC-By-NC.

Are tuna doing as well as latest extinction risk assessments suggest? It’s complicated

Mike Gaworecki 15 Sep 2021

Mycoremediation brings the fungi to waste disposal and ecosystem restoration

Carly Nairn 15 Sep 2021

Saving sea turtles in the ‘Anthropause’: Successes and challenges on the beach

Elizabeth Fitt 15 Sep 2021
Western spotted skunk (Spilogale gracilis). Image by Robby Heischman courtesy of the Field Museum.

Pepé Le New: Meet the acrobatic spotted skunks of North America

Liz Kimbrough 15 Sep 2021

Fashions to die for: The fur trade’s role in spreading zoonotic disease

Jenny Gonzales 15 Sep 2021

COP15 comment: Overlooked rice landscapes can boost biodiversity in Asia (commentary)

Alex Stuart, Oliver Frith 14 Sep 2021

When COVID shut Broadway, award-winning actress Jane Alexander went birding

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Sep 2021

Oil palms alone can be damaging; with other crops, the benefits abound

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Sep 2021

Win for Malaysian forest after government backs down on development plan

Rachel Donald 14 Sep 2021

Marine experts flag new Peru marine reserve that allows industrial fishing

Yvette Sierra Praeli 14 Sep 2021

OECM concept may bring more inclusive approach to conserving biodiversity

Jim Tan 13 Sep 2021

Project works with farmers to restore Brazilian pine forests

Luís Patriani 13 Sep 2021
red panda

Myanmar’s snowcapped north is a haven for large mammals, new study finds

Carolyn Cowan 13 Sep 2021

Worked to death: How a Chinese tuna juggernaut crushed its Indonesian workers

Philip Jacobson, Basten Gokkon, Taufik Wijaya, Seulki Lee, Makoto Watanabe, Annelise Giseburt 13 Sep 2021

Should tree plantations count toward reforestation goals? It’s complicated

Gianluca Cerullo 10 Sep 2021

As tourists flood a Tanzanian park, the Maasai say they’re being pushed out

Ashoka Mukpo 10 Sep 2021

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