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Juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in Chile.

Mass salmon deaths hit Scottish farms as government investigates

Francesco De Augustinis 12 Feb 2025

A deadly parasite turns jaguar conservation into a human health priority

Sarah Brown 30 Dec 2024
Roger and Matt store the days catch after a day of reefnet fishing in Legoe Bay, off the shore of Lummi Island Washington.

Last of the reef netters: An Indigenous, sustainable salmon fishery

Liz Kimbrough 21 Nov 2023
Salmon attempt to make it up the falls at Bridge River Rapids on the Fraser River in southwestern British Columbia.

Fish out of water: North American drought bakes salmon

Ruth Kamnitzer 20 Nov 2023
Juvenile Salmon in Estuary. Image by Travish Campbell via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

As sea lice feast away on dwindling salmon, First Nations decide the fate of salmon farms

Spoorthy Raman 23 Jan 2023
The spectral tarsier is a close relative of the western tarsier. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Extinction not only threatens primates—their parasites are in danger, too

McKenzie Prillaman 1 Dec 2021

Without room to expand, mountain gorillas’ population growth could backfire

Ini Ekott 29 Jun 2021

Captive lions kept in ‘stressful conditions’ create perfect recipe for disease, experts say

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Apr 2021

New parasitoid wasp species discovered in Amazon manipulate host behavior in ‘complex way’

Mongabay.com 21 Feb 2020

Meet the new parasitic wasp species named ‘Idris elba’

Mongabay.com 21 Nov 2019

Mysterious plants that thrive in darkness, steal food: Q&A with botanist Kenji Suetsugu

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Aug 2019

Slight warming could be enough to heighten risk of malaria: Study

Mongabay.com 4 Jul 2019

New species of pea-sized crab discovered — inside a mussel

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Nov 2016

Attack of the killer vines: lianas taking over forests in Panama

Jose Hong 14 Jul 2014

They think, therefore they spread: plants can make complex conditional decisions

Andrew Mann 7 Jul 2014

Fly and wasp biodiversity in Peru linked to strange defense strategy

Nicholas Barrett 18 Jun 2014

Wonderful Creatures: meet the animal that has evolved a cushy, worry-free life inside an octopus

Ross Piper 30 Jan 2014

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