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Elusive elephants: Determining where 19th century ivory trade victims roamed

Sukee Bennett 17 Nov 2016
Muskrat Falls in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, the future site of the hydroelectric dam. The falls will be flooded in 2017. Photo by Amina Schartup.

New dams may expose Canadian seafood consumers to higher levels of neurotoxin

Emily Benson 23 Nov 2015

Preservatives from cosmetics build up in the bodies of far-flung marine mammals

Bethany Augliere 23 Nov 2015

Poisonous amphibians may be more likely to go extinct

Erin E.A. Ross 23 Nov 2015

Birds, butterflies, and flowers might be blander than expected in the tropics

Alison F. Takemura 20 Nov 2015
A kelp forest off the California Coast, where pockets of full protection alternate with zones allowing limited fishing. Photo by Greg Asner.

Ocean protections drift behind those on land, but science can help

Natalie Jacewicz 20 Nov 2015
Firefighters created fire breaks by setting back burns during the 2013 Rim Fire in California’s Sierra Nevada. Photo by Mike McMillan, U.S. National Park Service.

Small, controlled fires are the only way to prevent large wildfires, researchers argue

Lindzi Wessel 20 Nov 2015
Tourists can spread invasive species on unwashed fishing kits. Photo courtesy of Paula Rosewarn.

Invasive species hop on tourists worldwide

Amy McDermott 20 Nov 2015
The study authors counted carcasses from hundreds of markets like this one, where visitors can purchase whole birds and their body parts. Photo by Gerhard Nikolaus.

Vanishing vultures: Africa’s fetish and bushmeat trade is driving its scavengers to extinction

Brendan Bane 19 Nov 2015
Air pollution from outdoor cooking fires like this contribute to millions of global deaths, according to the study. Photo by Engineering for Change / Flickr.

Air pollution causes millions of preventable deaths in East Asia, say scientists

Ramin Skibba 17 Nov 2015
A giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) climbs a tree at the Bifengxia Giant Panda Breeding and Conservation Center in Sichuan, China. Photo by Binbin Li, Duke University

Protecting pandas shields other species in China

Laurel Hamers 17 Nov 2015

Forests could be a thrifty way to fight ozone pollution

Nala Rogers 16 Dec 2014

Pollinators puzzle to find flowers amidst natural and human fumes

Lisa Marie Potter 9 Dec 2014

Old fishermen document declining range of the Indus River dolphin

Rex Sanders 3 Dec 2014

Nano-tags track baby sea turtles during their first few hours

Leigh Cooper 3 Dec 2014

Shark pups may not survive climate change

Leslie Willoughby 1 Dec 2014

Without draconian measures, global population boom is ‘locked in’

Chris Cesare 1 Dec 2014

Egyptian art helps chart past extinctions of big mammals

Kim Smuga-Otto 1 Dec 2014

What happened to the oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster?

James Urton 24 Nov 2014

New marine protected areas key to fighting illegal fishing

Kerry Klein 24 Nov 2014

Bioluminescent bacteria expose toxic arsenic in Bangladesh

Nsikan Akpan 2 Apr 2014

Gulf of Mexico deep sea may need decades to recover from oil spill

Nicholas St. Fleur 20 Nov 2013

Coal’s future carbon costs may make it more expensive than wind energy

Matt Davenport 15 Nov 2013

Tiny algae signal big changes for warming Arctic lakes

Molly Sharlach 15 Nov 2013

Coelacanths might be monogamous, to the surprise of researchers

Cynthia Mckelvey 14 Nov 2013

Longline fisheries in Costa Rica hook tens of thousands of sea turtles every year

Julia Calderone 14 Nov 2013

Wolves boost food for Yellowstone’s threatened grizzlies

Becky Bach 13 Nov 2013

Flawed from inception? Ecuador’s Yasuní-ITT initiative threatened indigenous groups with simple mapping errors

Nsikan Akpan 13 Nov 2013

Locally extinct birds in the Amazon slowly flock back to forests when trees regrow

Cat Ferguson 13 Nov 2013

Amazon’s vast rainforest dominated by few tree species

Patricia Waldron 12 Nov 2013

Kids’ stories and new stoves protect the golden snub-nosed monkey in China

Jyoti Madhusoodanan 12 Nov 2013

Could marine cloud machines cool the planet?

Laura Poppick 26 Nov 2012

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