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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

Conservationists appeal to donors after mystery kills 134,252 saiga

Jeremy Hance 10 Jun 2015

120,000 dead: half of the world’s saiga die in less than a month

Jeremy Hance 28 May 2015

Biodiversity may reduce the threat of disease

Victor Montoro 19 Feb 2015

Brazilian indigenous populations grow quickly after first contact devastation

Caitlin E. Williamson 18 Feb 2015

Did palm oil expansion play a role in the Ebola crisis?

Emmanuel K. Urey 14 Jan 2015

Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2014

Rhett A. Butler 23 Dec 2014

Human infections by ‘monkey malaria’ increasing as forests disappear

Loren Bell 10 Nov 2014

Pet trade likely responsible for killer salamander fungus

Jeremy Hance 30 Oct 2014

The Search for Lost Frogs: one of conservation’s most exciting expeditions comes to life in new book

Jeremy Hance 30 Oct 2014

An uncertain future: world’s last wild Siberian tigers threatened by illegal logging, global warming, disease (PART II)

Sandhya Sekar 22 Aug 2014

Biomass burning accounts for 18% of CO2 emissions, kills a quarter of a million people annually

Jeremy Hance 5 Aug 2014

How did Ebola Zaïre Get to Guinea?

Analysis Daniel Stiles 5 Aug 2014

Don’t eat or touch bat bushmeat amid worsening Ebola outbreak, UN warns

Jeremy Hance 29 Jul 2014

Apeidemiology: researchers model ape disease transmission for the first time

Jordanna Dulaney 20 Jun 2014

Next big idea in forest conservation? Linking public health and environmental degradation

Dr Liz Kimbrough 22 May 2014

Loss of wildlife and deforestation can increase human disease

Morgan Erickson-Davis 8 May 2014

Will yellow fever drive brown howler monkeys to extinction in Argentina?

Morgan Erickson-Davis 4 Apr 2014

Next big idea in forest conservation? Connecting deforestation to disease

Dr Liz Kimbrough 3 Apr 2014

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