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Stricter rules adopted to protect sloths from pet trade and selfie tourism

Fernanda Wenzel 9 Dec 2025
The resulting piles of plastic after beach clean-up volunteers sifted microplastics from water and sand in Kailua Bay, a few miles south Kāneʻohe Bay, Oʻahu. Image courtesy of: Ken G Kosada/Lethal Lens Photography.

Another threat to reefs: Microplastic chemicals may harm coral reproduction

Kari Goodbar 5 Dec 2025
A breaching northern bottlenose soars out of the water. Image by Sanna Isojunno via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

A rare bright spot for whales: Decades of conservation pay off for endangered population in Canada

Stella Mayerhoff 5 Dec 2025

Wildfire burns climate-vulnerable Joshua trees in US national park

Bobby Bascomb 4 Dec 2025

The Indigenous women changing the course of their communities

Astrid Arellano 4 Dec 2025
Gregg Treinish in Botswana's Okavango. Photo by Shah Selbe

Turning adventure into data

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Dec 2025
Spraying pesticides on a field. Chemical pesticides have become ubiquitous in industrial agriculture, and have contributed to a rapid rise in chronic diseases, researchers say.

‘Silent epidemic of chemical pollution’ demands radical regulatory redo, say scientists

Mike Gaworecki 3 Dec 2025
Jean Beasley with the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center with a juvenile Kemp's Ridley sea turtle on Sept. 17, 2013 in Surf City, N.C. Photo courtesy of KEN BLEVINS/STARNEWS

Jean Beasley, who turned her young daughter’s dying wish into a mission to save sea turtles, has died

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Dec 2025

Forest loss, fires and invasions soar in Nicaraguan wildlife refuge, watchdog warns

Gonzalo Ortuño López 3 Dec 2025
Monarch butterfly resting on a plant. Photo by José López-García

Saving critical winter habitat for monarch butterflies may depend on buy-in from their human neighbors

Claudia Steiner 3 Dec 2025
Sorting of plastic bottles collected in Costa Rica for analysis. Photo by Juan Manuel Muñoz-Araya.

Lost at sea, found in Latin America: the journeys of discarded plastic bottles

Olivia Maule 2 Dec 2025
Screenshot of Gramma. Courtesy of the San Diego Zoo.

The long life of a Galápagos tortoise

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Nov 2025
A gray wolf in Minnesota.

First state-authorized killings mark escalation in California’s management of wolves

Spoorthy Raman 29 Nov 2025

Solar-lights protect sea turtles from fishing nets, Mexico trials show

Liz Kimbrough 28 Nov 2025

What’s at stake for the environment in Honduras’ presidential election?

Maxwell Radwin 26 Nov 2025

Central America’s forests are crucial for migrating birds: Study

Bobby Bascomb 26 Nov 2025

Drought amplifies human-wildlife conflict, study finds

Bobby Bascomb 25 Nov 2025

Are wolves scared of us?

Abhishyant Kidangoor 25 Nov 2025
A juvenile orange-fronted parakeet seized by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Office of Law Enforcement at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry in California.

It’s ‘whack-a-mole’: Alarming rise in pet trade fuels wildlife trafficking into California

Spoorthy Raman 25 Nov 2025
A sea otter

‘Forever chemical’ contamination could undermine sea otters’ fragile recovery in Canada

Edward Carver 21 Nov 2025
Chris Grinter. Photo © California Academy of Sciences

Inside California’s race to document its insects: A conversation with Chris Grinter

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Nov 2025
Nassau grouper.

Study finds important Nassau grouper spawning site in Belize near collapse

Marco Lopez 20 Nov 2025

Wolf hauls up crab trap to eat bait, hinting at possible tool use

Bobby Bascomb 20 Nov 2025

Gold mining exposes Indigenous women in Nicaragua to high mercury levels

Aimee Gabay 20 Nov 2025
Banner image: Adult male peregrine (F. p. brookei) in Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India. Peregrine falcons almost disappeared across North America and Europe in the early 1900s because of DDT and other pesticides.

Scientists slam Canada-US proposal to lower trade protections for peregrine falcons

Spoorthy Raman 18 Nov 2025
Pyramid butterflyfish (Hemitaurichthys polylepis) around the island of Bali in Indonesia.

Trade in marine fish for aquariums includes threatened species, lacks oversight: Study

Edward Carver 18 Nov 2025
Roxanne Swentzell harvesting drought-resistant corn on her garden plot in the Santa Clara Pueblo of New Mexico. Image courtesy of Roxanne Swentzell.

From waffle gardens to terraces, Indigenous groups revive farming heritage in America’s deserts

Justin Catanoso 18 Nov 2025

Scientists & nuns unite to save Mexico’s rare achoque salamanders

Mongabay.com 18 Nov 2025
turtle

In Mexico, world’s smallest turtle faces big threats from trafficking, habitat loss

Sandra Weiss 18 Nov 2025
Corals and fish in Lighthouse Reef atoll, Belize.

Are Belize’s fisheries policies delivering?

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Nov 2025
A male Vallarta mud turtle, one of the 40 seized as part of the operation, cared for at the Guadalajara Zoo.

Massive turtle bust in Mexico reveals ‘Wild West’ of wildlife trafficking

Spoorthy Raman 14 Nov 2025
Samuel Bourgault, leader of the project part of the drone program at the MWIFMA. Image by Boris R. Thebia.

Photos: Drones help First Nations track down cold-water havens for salmon amid warming

Boris R. Thebia 13 Nov 2025

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