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A mother and baby macaque.

Ebola-like African primate viruses ‘poised for spillover’ to humans, study finds

Mactilda Mbenywe 21 Dec 2022
A guigna.

Wild cats threatened by ‘underrecognized’ risk of spillover disease

Sean Mowbray 13 Oct 2022

An Indigenous basket-weaving tradition keeps a Philippine forest alive

Keith Anthony Fabro 6 Mar 2022

Call for COVID rules that reduced infections in gorilla parks to remain

Ryan Truscott 24 Feb 2022

Preventing the next pandemic is vastly cheaper than reacting to it: Study

Sharon Guynup 4 Feb 2022

‘To change policies, insert yourself in them’: Q&A with biologist Liliana Dávalos

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 29 Oct 2021

COVID could wreak havoc on gorillas, but they social distance better than we do

Ryan Truscott 22 Oct 2021

In harm’s way: Our actions put people and wildlife at risk of disease

Sharon Guynup 20 Oct 2021

Biosurveillance of markets and legal wildlife trade needed to curb pandemic risk: Experts

Gloria Dickie 14 Oct 2021
Endangered black-footed ferrets (Mustela nigripes). Image courtesy of Kimberly Fraser/USFWS.

Black-footed ferrets riding out COVID-19 with a vaccine and a lot of TLC

Rachel Fritts 27 Sep 2021

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

Elizabeth Fitt 15 Sep 2021

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

Jenny Gonzales 15 Sep 2021

Study fails to find link between increased deforestation and COVID lockdowns

James Fair 14 Sep 2021

Plant-based face masks? This young Philippine inventor has you covered

Ethan Kisses Guevarra 6 Sep 2021

Conservation after coronavirus: We need to diversify and innovate (commentary)

Jonathan Ayers and Frederic Launay 2 Sep 2021

Studies debunk ‘nature is healing’ narrative from 2020 lockdowns

Jansen Baier 1 Sep 2021

Black Death aside, we know surprisingly little about rodents and disease

Liz Kimbrough 9 Aug 2021

New study finds that minority of animals host majority of zoonotic viruses

Michael Tatarski 5 Aug 2021

Address risky human activities now or face new pandemics, scientists warn

Sharon Guynup 3 Aug 2021

For Malaysia’s Indigenous Penan, vaccine doubt is part of historic govt distrust

Rachel Donald 15 Jul 2021

For Africa’s great apes, a post-pandemic future looks beyond tourism

Heather Richardson 9 Jun 2021

Brazilian Cerrado savanna: Wildcat miners descend on Indigenous reserve

Ana Ionova 16 Apr 2021

Captive lions kept in ‘stressful conditions’ create perfect recipe for disease, experts say

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Apr 2021

Brazil’s isolated tribes in the crosshairs of miners targeting Indigenous lands

Hyury Potter and Fabio Bispo 17 Mar 2021

The Covid-19 question: How do we prevent future pandemics?

Jeremy Hance 9 Mar 2021

Indigenous groups blast Amazon state’s plan to legalize wildcat mining

Sam Cowie 22 Jan 2021

In ‘dire’ plea, Brazil’s Amazonas state appeals for global COVID assistance

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 21 Jan 2021

Brazil’s collapsing health service, new COVID variant, raise Indigenous risk

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 20 Jan 2021

Indonesia’s five most consequential environmental stories of 2020

Loren Bell 29 Dec 2020
Blackwater oxbow lake, rainforest, and a whitewater river in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

How the pandemic impacted rainforests in 2020: a year in review

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Dec 2020
A world turned weird. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Top 10 environmental news stories of 2020

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Dec 2020

Can whales and dolphins catch COVID-19 from wastewater? It’s murky

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 3 Dec 2020

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