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Illegal bushmeat trade threatens human health and great apes

Claire Asher 6 Apr 2017

Yellow fever is killing howler monkeys in Brazil

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Mar 2017

Breakthrough boosts hope for treating contagious cancer in Tasmanian devils

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Mar 2017

Cars and STDs killing koalas in Queensland

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Mar 2017

The Spirit of the Steppes: Saving Central Asia’s saiga

Elizabeth Devitt 27 Feb 2017

Field Notes: Predicting how the pet trade spreads infectious disease

Elizabeth Devitt 13 Feb 2017

Trump administration delays listing of rusty patched bumblebee as endangered

Shreya Dasgupta 10 Feb 2017

Rusty patched bumblebee now first bee to be listed as endangered in continental U.S.

Mike Gaworecki 13 Jan 2017

How tropical deforestation and land-use change is driving emerging infectious diseases

Mike Gaworecki 20 Dec 2016

The beloved Hawaiian honeycreeper birds are at risk of extinction from avian malaria

Sarah Derouin 18 Nov 2016

Feral pigs, vampire bats, and infectious diseases in rural Brazil

Mike Gaworecki 11 Nov 2016

Climate change is impacting all aspects of life on Earth: new study

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Nov 2016

Tasmanian devils are rapidly evolving resistance to deadly cancer

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Aug 2016

Deficient water systems, poor sanitation driving Zika in Brazil

Zoe Sullivan 29 Jul 2016

Rio Olympic organizers fail to meet all environmental goals

Jenny Gonzales 28 Jul 2016

Zika: from obscure virus to global health emergency

Jenny Gonzales 25 May 2016

The week in environmental news – April 22, 2016

Brittany Stewart 23 Apr 2016

Disease prevention a boost to human health and great ape conservation

Elizabeth Devitt 21 Apr 2016

Are Europe’s Ash trees headed towards extinction?

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Apr 2016

Pathogens ‘lurking’ in Lao PDR’s wildlife markets can lead to emergence of zoonotic diseases

Shreya Dasgupta 4 Apr 2016

Deadly bat disease has now reached Washington state

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Apr 2016

Unhealthy environment kills 12.6 million people every year: WHO study

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Mar 2016

To stop the Zika virus from spreading in Brazil, specialists call for an ‘environmental revolution’

Carolina Torres 18 Feb 2016

Zika virus and climate change

Fred Bercovitch 17 Feb 2016

Focus on breeding sites and biodiversity to control Zika, says leading entomologist

Catharine Watson 15 Feb 2016

Madagascar scientists unsure how best to guard frogs from fungus

Elizabeth Devitt 30 Jan 2016

Deforestation increasing cases of ‘monkey malaria’ in humans, study says

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Jan 2016

Tasmanian Devils hit by a second contagious cancer

Shreya Dasgupta 4 Jan 2016

A surprising threat to Monarch butterfly survival — tropical milkweed

Sophie Furnival 23 Oct 2015

Tasmanian Devil vaccine trial suffers setback: 4 of 19 vaccinated devils killed on road

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Oct 2015

‘Act before it is too late’: scientists urge ban on salamander imports to avert pandemic

Erin Conlisk 3 Aug 2015

Does fishing make corals sick?

Sandhya Sekar 20 Jul 2015

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