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A brittle star (Gorgonocephalus sp.), recognizable by its numerous abundantly branched arms, attached to a white coral (Desmophyllum pertusum).

First-ever assessment highlights threats to Atlantic cold-water corals

Keith Anthony Fabro 30 Jun 2025
A Schrenck’s bumblebee (Bombus schrencki) in Estonia.

Climate change now threatens thousands of species on Earth

Spoorthy Raman 22 May 2025
An agamid lizard in a Chinese rainforest.

Diverse forests and forest rewilding offer resilience against climate change

Sean Mowbray 15 Apr 2025
Red deer in the Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria.

How is conservation preparing for a much hotter world? Experts share

Jeremy Hance 10 Apr 2025

U.S. policy experts confident of future climate action despite Trump election

Justin Catanoso 8 Nov 2024

As 25 Earth vital signs worsen, scientists warn of ‘irreversible climate disaster’

Sean Mowbray 15 Oct 2024
Fully functional Earth systems offer numerous ecosystem services to humanity, including clean air and water, the provision of food, and natural pollination of crops.

Combined effects of human activities increase risk to ecosystem services

Claire Asher 10 Oct 2024
A jellyfish swims in the sun in the mangroves.

Inaugural Planetary Health Check finds ocean acidification on the brink

Sean Mowbray 23 Sep 2024
Stunning photo is the first ever of a yellow-crested helmetshrike. Image by Matt Brady.

‘Dream birds’ in the mist: First photo of ‘lost’ bird in DRC mountains

Ryan Truscott 23 Sep 2024
A common Jezebel (Delias eucharis).

Scientists are racing to save South Asia’s butterflies from the threat of extinction

Hailey Smalley 31 Jul 2024

Frog ‘saunas’ may help threatened frogs fight off deadly fungus

Liz Kimbrough 9 Jul 2024
Pope Francis has inspired people the world over.

Ahead of COP28, pope spurs policymakers, faith leaders to push climate action

Justin Catanoso 30 Oct 2023

Pope Francis condemns world leaders for deeply flawed UN climate process

Justin Catanoso 5 Oct 2023

Frogs in the pot: Two in five amphibian species at risk amid climate crisis

Liz Kimbrough 5 Oct 2023

‘Catastrophic breeding failure’ for penguins as Antarctic sea ice vanishes

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Aug 2023
An Andean motmot.

‘What we need to protect and why’: 20-year Amazon research hints at fate of tropics

Justin Catanoso 24 Jul 2023
Magnolia griffithii

Bangladesh’s new red list of plants shows country has already lost seven species

Farhana Parvin 23 Jun 2023
A Cape Mountain Zebra and Young.

Temperature extremes, plus ecological marginalization, raise species risk: Studies

Tim Vernimmen 31 Jan 2023
An Arctic fox.

Protecting canids from planet-wide threats offers ecological opportunities

Sean Mowbray 10 Jan 2023
Illustration of a Stellar's sea cow.

Extinct sea cow’s underwater engineering legacy lives on today, study finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 20 Dec 2022
An orange-tip butterfly.

Climate change is hammering insects — in the tropics and everywhere else: Scientists

Jeremy Hance 9 Dec 2022
A tiger-legged monkey tree frog.

Humans are decimating wildlife, report warns ahead of U.N. biodiversity talks

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Oct 2022
A Charonias theano butterfly

Trouble in the tropics: The terrestrial insects of Brazil are in decline

Jeremy Hance 5 Oct 2022
A manta ray with diver.

Study paints ‘bleak picture’ for nearly all marine life without emissions cuts

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Aug 2022
Hyacinth macaws in artificial nest

Habitat loss, climate change send hyacinth macaw reeling back into endangered status

Jenny Gonzales 4 Jul 2022
Hornbills — the so-called “farmers of the forest” in Africa and Asia — move more than 700 plant species up to 11 km (7 mi) in a day.

As animal seed dispersers go the way of the dodo, forest plants are at risk

Sharon Guynup 28 Apr 2022
A red-eyed tree frog in Brazil.

Global biodiversity is in crisis, but how bad is it? It’s complicated

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Apr 2022

‘There’s not much hope’: Mediterranean corals collapse under relentless heat

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 4 Feb 2022
Mushrooms

Scientists on a quest to map worldwide web of fungi beneath our feet

Carolyn Cowan 17 Dec 2021

Cats, charisma and climate change (commentary)

Jonathan Ayers 26 Oct 2021

Manatee deaths in Florida point to a global decline in seagrass ecosystems

Claudia Geib 6 Sep 2021

Hotter and drier: Deforestation and wildfires take a toll on the Amazon

Ignacio Amigo 20 Jul 2021

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