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Those kicks were fast as lightning: Kangaroo rats evade deadly snake strikes

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 4 Apr 2019

Chile renews contract with lithium company criticized for damaging wetland

Michelle Carrere 26 Dec 2018

Colombia: Dying of thirst, Wayuu blame mine, dam, drought for water woes

Lucy Sherriff 1 Nov 2018
Black Necked Cranes

For India’s black-necked cranes, dogs are a major threat

Athar Parvaiz 28 Aug 2018

Earth has more trees now than 35 years ago

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Aug 2018

Wildlife decimated by the surge in conflicts in the Sahara and the Sahel

Mongabay.com 9 May 2018

African Parks to manage gorges, rock art and crocodiles of Chad’s Ennedi

Mongabay.com 27 Feb 2018

Power lines killing the last remaining Great Indian Bustards in India

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Dec 2017

Nigeria pledges to restore nearly 10 million acres of degraded land

Mike Gaworecki 7 Dec 2017

Study maps out reptiles’ ranges, completing the ‘atlas of life’

Mongabay.com 17 Oct 2017

UNEP official calls for ‘coherent planning’ as Aichi falters in Africa

Sophie Mbugua 5 Oct 2017

Healthy soils can boost food security and climate resilience for millions (commentary)

Inger Andersen 6 Sep 2017

Elusive seabird breeding grounds discovered in Chilean desert

Kim Smuga-Otto 16 Jun 2017

Drylands greener with forests than previously thought

John Cannon 12 May 2017
Eucalyptus tree. Photo by Bidgee/Wikimedia Commons

Pressure over water in Brazil puts pulp industry in the spotlight

Ignacio Amigo 2 Mar 2017

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

Bolivia’s second largest lake disappears, due to desertification and contamination

Aldo Orellana López 15 Feb 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

Water crisis widening: 4.5 billion people live near ‘impaired water sources’

Fiona Harvey 28 May 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

Top security official in Nigeria blames climate change for worsening insecurity

Jeremy Hance 25 Apr 2013

Mad Max sequel runs over sensitive desert ecosystem in Namibia

Krystal A. Tolley 11 Apr 2013

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