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Lar National Park in northern Iran, about 100 kilometers from Tehran. Photo by Mahdi Kalhor via Panoramio

Three murders highlight troubles of Iran’s park rangers

Jennifer Huizen 18 Aug 2016

China jails 7 people, including airport employee, for smuggling rare tortoises

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Aug 2016

Pulling the stunningly unique painted terrapin back from the brink

Diane Toomey 17 Aug 2016

In search of a lost species: the Santa Marta Toro

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Aug 2016

‘All they need is a head start’: reforesting India’s Western Ghats

Sibi Arasu 16 Aug 2016

Climate change pledges not nearly enough to save tropical ecosystems

Jeremy Hance 16 Aug 2016

New orange-black snake discovered in Mexico

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Aug 2016

400-year-old Greenland shark might be oldest vertebrate on Earth

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Aug 2016

PHOTOS: ‘A Visual Celebration of Borneo’s Wildlife’

Mike Gaworecki 15 Aug 2016

Field Notes: Saving America’s last wild meat-eating Venus flytraps

Elizabeth Devitt 15 Aug 2016
A family of Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) in Tanjung Puting National Park, Borneo. The mother was rescued from a palm oil development and re-released as a juvenile here, but unable to survive in the wild because she lacked the careful upbringing required to find food throughout the year. Photo by Matthew Luskin / NGS.

10 orangutans released into the wild in Borneo

Indra Nugraha 15 Aug 2016
Kelp and sardines in the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary in California. Photo courtesy of NOAA's National Ocean Service

Could kelp forests keep ocean acidification at bay?

Jeremy Hance 12 Aug 2016

Can camera traps help stop wildlife crime?

Mike Gaworecki 12 Aug 2016

Mountain streams in the U.S. show surprising resilience to climate change

Meghan Gilbert 12 Aug 2016

World Elephant Day: Poaching remains ‘unacceptably high’ for African elephants

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Aug 2016

Does prohibiting local access to nature hurt African wildlife conservation?

Michael Schwartz 11 Aug 2016

Indonesia mulls revision of orangutan conservation plan

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 11 Aug 2016

Out of sight, out of mind: Asia’s elusive Fishing Cat in trouble

Sean Mowbray 11 Aug 2016

Tens of thousands of birds being sold illegally in Javan bird markets

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Aug 2016
An atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), at the Atlanterhavsparken aquarium in Ålesund, Norway. Photo by Hans-Petter Fjeld via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA).

Fish-farm escapees are weakening Norwegian wild salmon genetics

Melati Kaye 10 Aug 2016

Deforestation: a lingering legacy

John Cannon 10 Aug 2016

Understanding the ghost of the mountain

Julia John 10 Aug 2016

Trees share carbon: new discovery may be key to saving trees in a warming world

Christina Selby 10 Aug 2016

Indochinese leopard has disappeared from 94% of its historical range

Shreya Dasgupta 10 Aug 2016

From Boom to Glug glug: Indonesia’s new anti-poacher policy

Melati Kaye 9 Aug 2016

What wild monkeys can teach us about the origins of human language

Mike Gaworecki 9 Aug 2016

Borneo conservationists and top oil palm firm work to help orangutans

Deirdre Leowinata 9 Aug 2016

Sites targeted for deep-sea mining teeming with new species

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Aug 2016

Should you be concerned about plastic and other human debris in your seafood?

Mike Gaworecki 8 Aug 2016

Two businessmen arrested for ivory trafficking

Shreya Dasgupta 8 Aug 2016

Hundreds of unexpected species found in Mexican UNESCO site slated for gold mine

Martha Pskowski 5 Aug 2016

Tadpoles found living in Japanese streams with hottest water ever recorded for an amphibian

Mike Gaworecki 5 Aug 2016

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