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Scimitar-horned oryx return to the Sahara nearly two decades after going extinct in the wild

Mike Gaworecki 20 Feb 2017

Obama creates two new national monuments, protecting 1.65 million acres

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Dec 2016

9 new natural sites added to World Heritage List

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Jul 2016

How the Sahara keeps the Amazon rainforest going

Jeremy Hance 2 Mar 2015

How termites hold back the desert

Jeremy Hance 5 Feb 2015

How black rhinos and local communities help each other in Namibia

Jeremy Hance 7 Jan 2015

Super cute, but tiny, elephant-relative discovered in Namibia

Jeremy Hance 30 Jun 2014

Survey finds huge biological value in Baja California, stalls resort development

Julian Moll-rocek 11 Jun 2014

How locals and conservationists saved the elephants of Mali amidst conflict and poverty

Jeremy Hance 2 Apr 2014

86 percent of big animals in the Sahara Desert are extinct or endangered

Jeremy Hance 3 Dec 2013

Naturalist rediscovers the long-lost night parrot

Karl Mathiesen 16 Jul 2013

Nearly a million people face food crisis in Niger

Jeremy Hance 13 May 2013

Uranium mine at edge of Grand Canyon National Park approved

Leslie Macmillan 8 May 2013

Mad Max sequel runs over sensitive desert ecosystem in Namibia

Krystal A. Tolley 11 Apr 2013

Mysteries surrounding the legendary and vanishing oriental bald ibis

Gianluca Serra 31 Oct 2012

Chart: Forest loss in Latin America

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Aug 2012

Camera traps discover new populations of nearly extinct chinchillas

Michael Rudolph 25 Jul 2012

Scientists give world leaders ‘Fs’ on climate change, biodiversity, and desertification

Jeremy Hance 19 Jun 2012

The vanishing Niger River imperils tourism and livelihoods in the desert

Linda Leila Diatta 4 Jun 2012

Niger creates desert park bigger than Hungary

Jeremy Hance 7 Mar 2012

NASA image shows it snowing in driest place on earth

Jeremy Hance 20 Jul 2011

Great Green Wall gets go ahead

Jeremy Hance 28 Feb 2011

Desertification threatens 38 percent of the world

Jeremy Hance 10 Feb 2010

Photos: massive spider discovered in Middle East is greatly endangered

Jeremy Hance 12 Jan 2010

Photos: ten beloved species threatened by global warming

Jeremy Hance 14 Dec 2009

Photos: four Critically Endangered Somali wild ass born at preserve in Qatar

Jeremy Hance 7 Dec 2009

Global warming threatens desert life

Jeremy Hance 9 Nov 2009

World’s rarest camel survived nuclear tests but today threatened by hunger for its meat

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Aug 2009

Photos: Rarest cheetah photographed for the first time

Jeremy Hance 23 Feb 2009

Mirrors in the desert may fight global warming

Mongabay.com 23 Dec 2008

Two new species of gecko discovered in Australia

Mongabay.com 31 Oct 2008

Two new species of eyeless albino millipede found in Arizona

Mongabay.com 5 Mar 2007

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