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Whale of a find: Scientists spot beaked whale believed to be a new species

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Dec 2020

What is a white-faced capuchin? Candid Animal Cam meets monkeys

Romi Castagnino 8 Dec 2020

What is a white-lipped peccary? Candid Animal Cam is in South America

Romi Castagnino 1 Dec 2020
Plastic pollution endangers marine animals, such as this young monk seal, which may get entangled in or ingest litter. Photo credit: the Ocean Cleanup/Matthew Chauvin

Clean up efforts won’t solve the plastic pollution crisis in the world’s seas

Isabella Backman 25 Nov 2020

How are jaguars different from leopards? Candid Animal Cam is in the Americas

Romi Castagnino 24 Nov 2020

The Amazon’s short-eared dog was thought to be a scavenger. Now there’s video

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 17 Nov 2020

What is a tayra? Candid Animal Cam is in the Americas

Romi Castagnino 17 Nov 2020

Podcast: Lemur love and award-winning plant passion in Madagascar

Mike Gaworecki 11 Nov 2020
A Grauer's Gorilla in Kahuzi-Biega National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in late 2016. There are fewer than 4,000 of the gorilla subspecies left. Photo by Thomas Nicolon

As energy needs drive demand for minerals, forests face greater threats

Victoria Schneider 11 Nov 2020

Whale zone ahead: A cetacean speed trap tags ships going over the limit

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 10 Nov 2020

Technology innovations look to change the cacao landscape in Colombia

Aurora Solá 10 Nov 2020

What makes chimps unique? Candid Animal Cam meets our close relatives

Romi Castagnino 10 Nov 2020

Where to patrol next: ‘Netflix’ of ranger AI serves up poaching predictions

Claudia Geib 5 Nov 2020

Are wolves related to dogs? Candid Animal Cam meets the largest member of the dog family

Romi Castagnino 3 Nov 2020
Map of Biodiversity. Esri, NatureServe

Esri co-founder Jack Dangermond: ‘People and planet are inextricably linked’

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Oct 2020
The ROV SuBastain with careful guidance by its pilots uses the manipulator arm to collect a geological sample at 500m on Flinders Reef. Photo credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute

Philanthropist Wendy Schmidt: ‘Solutions are always local’

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Oct 2020

How do red-fronted lemurs behave? Candid Animal Cam is in Madagascar

Romi Castagnino 27 Oct 2020
Newly hatched olive ridley sea turtle in Costa Rica. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The turtle egg that pinged back: Tracing a poaching pathway in Costa Rica

Claudia Geib 22 Oct 2020

The rhino in the room: 3D scan brings near-extinct Sumatran species to virtual life

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Oct 2020

Why do wombats poop cubes? Candid Animal Cam is in Australia

Romi Castagnino 20 Oct 2020

Madagascar experiments with drones for its massive reforestation effort

Rivonala Razafison 19 Oct 2020

A radio program is helping save critically endangered gorillas in Nigeria

Mike Gaworecki 14 Oct 2020

What is the Mexican hairy dwarf porcupine? Candid Animal Cam heads to Mesoamerica

Romi Castagnino 13 Oct 2020

New evidence suggests China’s ‘dark’ vessels poached in Galápagos waters

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 9 Oct 2020

The social network of coral reef fish: Q&A with ecologist Mike Gil

Claudia Geib 8 Oct 2020

With the help of an app, Nunavut hunters document the changing Arctic

Claudia Geib 7 Oct 2020

Brazilian frog believed ‘extinct’ for 50+ years, found with eDNA testing

Peter Yeung 6 Oct 2020

Meet the red fox found in the Northern Hemisphere on Candid Animal Cam

Romi Castagnino 6 Oct 2020

Don’t cross this tiger mom: Close encounter in Russia’s Far East

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 29 Sep 2020

How loud are howler monkeys? Candid Animal Cam is in the trees this week

Romi Castagnino 29 Sep 2020
Illustration of Landsat satellite Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Cente

New partnership brings high-resolution satellite imagery of the tropics to all

Liz Kimbrough 25 Sep 2020

New tool alerts ships when whales are near. But will they slow down?

Claudia Geib 23 Sep 2020

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