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Firefighters in LA blaze face same toxic exposure as 9/11 responders

Bobby Bascomb 17 Jan 2025
Banner image of discus fish by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

1 in 4 freshwater species worldwide at risk of extinction: Study

Kristine Sabillo 14 Jan 2025

Surviving fire but not the toxins as modern homes, full of plastic, burn

Mongabay.com 14 Jan 2025
right whale breaching

Right whales can live to 130, but in North America they die young

Edward Carver 10 Jan 2025

Deadly wildfires force thousands to evacuate homes in Los Angeles

Bobby Bascomb 9 Jan 2025
a fly mid-pollination

Warming threatens flies more than bees, raising pollination concerns

Liz Kimbrough 8 Jan 2025

President Biden bans offshore oil and gas drilling for many U.S. waters

Bobby Bascomb 8 Jan 2025

U.S. reports first human death from H5N1 bird flu

Mongabay.com 7 Jan 2025
Jane Goodall in Japan in June 2023. Photo taken by Kaori Nishida

Jane Goodall awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Jan 2025
Trees on the shore of Salmon Lake south of Sitka. Image courtesy of Dang Ngo / Greenpeace.

How the U.S. got no old growth forest protections from the Biden Administration (commentary)

Dominick A. DellaSala 3 Jan 2025
The National Family Farm Coalition protests genetically engineered salmon at an event in Berea, Kentucky in August 2024.

Campaigners celebrate as firm making first-ever GMO fish ceases operations

Edward Carver 31 Dec 2024

Five Hawaiian crows released into forest after decades of extinction in the wild

Shanna Hanbury 23 Dec 2024

Giant hellbender salamander is proposed for U.S. federal protection

Bobby Bascomb 18 Dec 2024

Monarch butterflies proposed for U.S. federal protection

Bobby Bascomb 13 Dec 2024
Pinyon pines cut into firewood on the Diné College forest plot. Photo credit: Peter Z. Fulé.

Students and scientists collaborate to maintain Navajo Nation forests

Mark DeGraff 6 Dec 2024
The Missouri River floods Nebraska’s Offutt Air Force Base in March 2019. Photo credit: Rachelle Blake on Wikimedia Commons

Eastern U.S. floods could persist longer toward the end of the century

Jenna Ahart 4 Dec 2024
Green-winged teals (Anas carolinensis) take flight over waters safeguarded in Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge in Wyoming. Overall, the state has up to 260,000 hectares (640,000 acres) of at-risk wetlands. Photo credit: Tom Koerner/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Controversial U.S. Supreme Court decision threatens the country’s inland wetlands with new development, study says

Anna Fitzgerald Guth 2 Dec 2024
2. A U.S. Geological Survey boat monitors a severe Mississippi River flood near St. Louis, Missouri, in December 2015. Photo credit: U.S. Geological Survey

New research maps microbial life in U.S. rivers

Liz Kimbrough 29 Nov 2024
Corpus Christi at night, with fishing and pleasure boats set against the skyline. Image by Terry Ross via Wikimedia Commons.

Desalination plants proposed for Texas Gulf Coast spur broad opposition

Erik Hoffner 27 Nov 2024
A woman pulls a large bag filled with plastic in a landfill in Bangladesh.

Biden administration doesn’t support a cap on plastic production

Bobby Bascomb 22 Nov 2024

Rappahannock Tribe first in US to enshrine rights of nature into constitution

Liz Kimbrough 22 Nov 2024

Biden tours Amazon Rainforest, pledges funding in advance of Trump

Shanna Hanbury 19 Nov 2024
A firefighter wears a breathing mask after the Maui fire to protect himself from toxic vapors.

As global fire risk rises, modern homes become toxic plastic traps

Alden Wicker 14 Nov 2024
A bobcat navigates a snow-covered branch along the Madison River in Yellowstone National Park.

Bobcats are back, and they’re helping protect people from zoonotic disease

Christine Woodside 12 Nov 2024

Local groups drive creation of new Puerto Rico marine protected area

Bobby Bascomb 12 Nov 2024

U.S. policy experts confident of future climate action despite Trump election

Justin Catanoso 8 Nov 2024
A bald eagle in Alaska by Andy Morffew via Wikipedia (CC BY 2.0).

Will ‘Trump Part II’ be the wakeup call needed toward more effective conservation? (commentary)

Bram Büscher and Robert Fletcher 8 Nov 2024
Wild male saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica) visiting a waterhole at the Stepnoi Sanctuary, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia. Photo credit: Andrey Giljov [CC BY-SA 4.0]

Earthshot Prize names 5 winners working on environmental solutions

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Nov 2024
Kapuas Hulu, a province in West Kalimantan in the co-called "Heart of Borneo", is one of the pilot provinces. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Do forest conservation pledges work? (commentary)

Matthew Spencer 6 Nov 2024
A woman pulls a large bag filled with plastic in a landfill in Bangladesh.

U.S. toughens stance on plastics production in run-up to key treaty summit

Charles Pekow 5 Nov 2024
Banner image of Indonesian rainforest by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Mining drove 1.4m hectares of forest loss in last 2 decades: Report

Kristine Sabillo 5 Nov 2024

Salmon is ‘everything’ for Lummi Nation highlighted in new PBS documentary

Liz Kimbrough 1 Nov 2024

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