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Deforestation, climate change, and trade pose threats to the species, which has dwindled to a few hundred from some 750,000 in the 1960s.

US proposes endangered species protections for an imperiled Jamaican butterfly

Spoorthy Raman 7 May 2026

Family and friends help sperm whale mother and newborn during birth

Bobby Bascomb 26 Mar 2026
An oil pipeline through Wampis territory in the Amazonas department. Image by Jacob Balzani.

How foreign investor lawsuits stymie environmental protection

Aimee Gabay 19 Mar 2026
The orchids at Levy Preserve are naturally occurring and indicate that this land hadn’t been disturbed for many years.

A small preserve leads a big effort to save native plants in the Bahamas

Marlowe Starling 30 Dec 2025
A critically endangered lesser Antillean iguana in Dominica. Image courtesy of Andrew Snyder/Re:wild.

Tiny Caribbean island brings hope for critically endangered iguana

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Dec 2025
Atlantic blue tang surgeonfish (Acanthurus coeruleus). Photo by Sylfred1977 / Wikimedia Commons

New underwater acoustic camera identifies individual fish sounds, helping track threatened species

Kaia Glickman 9 Dec 2025
Nassau grouper.

Study finds important Nassau grouper spawning site in Belize near collapse

Marco Lopez 20 Nov 2025
Corals and fish in Lighthouse Reef atoll, Belize.

Belize’s blue reputation vs. reef reality: Marine conservation wins, and what’s missing (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Oct 2025

What to know about Hurricane Melissa

Associated Press 28 Oct 2025

As the Atlantic Ocean warms, climate change is fueling Hurricane Melissa’s ferocity

Associated Press 27 Oct 2025
Leonoras reef in Klein Bonaire. Image by EdFladung via Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0).

Most Caribbean coral reefs to stop growing by 2040, study warns

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Sep 2025
Sea fans in a coral reef in San Pedro, Belize. Image by Fabrice Dudenhofer / Ocean Image Bank.

Belize project seeks out heat-resilient corals to protect its reefs

Marco Lopez 19 Aug 2025
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More than 10,000 species on brink of extinction need urgent action: Study

Liz Kimbrough 30 Jul 2025

2,000 species at high risk of extinction from natural disasters, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 25 Jul 2025
Researcher Kelly Pitts samples tissue from a great star coral. Image courtesy of Hunter Noren.

Probiotics slow a deadly disease in Florida coral, study finds

Shanna Hanbury 23 Jul 2025
The Barbados threadsnake, a species lost to science for 20 years, was found during an ecological survey on Barbados by the Barbados Ministry of the Environment and National Beautification and Re:wild in March 2025. Image courtesy of Connor Blades

World’s smallest snake spotted by scientists in Barbados after 20-year absence

Liz Kimbrough 23 Jul 2025
A view from Saint George on the island of Antigua and Barbuda. Image by docshiznit via Wikimedia Commons.

Small island nations provide big environmental solutions but need finance partners (commentary)

Gaston Browne 15 Jul 2025
Corals and fish in Lighthouse Reef atoll, Belize.

Restoration, protection aim to save Belize’s coral reef from extreme heat and disease

Marco Lopez 9 Jul 2025

The Caribbean’s hardiest corals (cartoon)

Rohan Chakravarty 24 Jun 2025
Abundant in the Sargasso Sea (above), sargassum has been blossoming in the Caribbean and on the Amazon shore.

New study dismisses Amazon River runoff as primary cause of sargassum blooms

Julian Reingold 11 Jun 2025
A diver applies an amoxicillin paste to stony coral tissue loss disease-affected corals in Roatan, Honduras. The antibiotic paste can slow or halt lesion progression. Image by Antonio Busiello.

Researchers race to understand disease killing Caribbean corals at unprecedented rates

Ruth Kamnitzer 6 Jun 2025
Nontoxic dye released from an artificial upwelling experiment off the Canary Islands. That experiment, set to last weeks, ended after just one day when the pump failed. “To most of us that proved … the technical readiness of this approach is not there,” says Michael Sswat, a postdoctoral researcher at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, who was part of the research team.

Marine artificial upwelling, problematic climate solution slow to advance

Sean Mowbray 2 Jun 2025

Restoring deep-sea corals after massive oil spill

Juan Maza 30 May 2025
Banner image: Photos of human rights lawyer Ricardo Arturo Lagunes Gasca, who disappeared last year in Mexico. Photo by Luis Rojas via Global Witness.

Environmental defenders targeted in 3 out of 4 human rights attacks: Report

Kristine Sabillo 23 May 2025
Two North Atlantic right whales photographed in the Bahamas. Image courtesy of Jero Prieto/Pelagic Life.

Critically endangered right whales spotted in the Bahamas for first time

Shanna Hanbury 21 Apr 2025
Roots and nodules of a lab-grown yam plant. Image courtesy of Asrat Amele / IITA.

Farmers turn to living ‘yam sticks’ to grow their crop and spare the forest

Mark Hillsdon 3 Apr 2025
(left) Endangered Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus), Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge, Florida. by David Hinkel. (right) Manatee. Photo courtesy of NOAA's National Ocean Service

Manatees in peril as human pressures push gentle giants toward the brink

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Mar 2025
A Caribbean reef shark.

Caribbean reef sharks rebound in Belize with shark fishers’ help

Marco Lopez 13 Mar 2025
The team make containers to store the fish out of plastic tubes.

To save a Honduran reef, locals craft custom gear and hunt invasive lionfish

Mongabay.com 13 Mar 2025

‘James Bond’ lizard among 35 new species described from Caribbean islands

Kristine Sabillo 22 Jan 2025

Almost extinct Caribbean lizard makes a comeback after island restoration

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Dec 2024
A Desmarest’s hutia in Cuba.

That Cuban rodent species you never knew about? Turns out it’s two species

Jeremy Hance 6 Dec 2024

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