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David Myers. Courtesy of the Wildlands Conservancy.

David Myers, conservationist and land broker for nature, dies at 73

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Mar 2025
Banner image of a loggerhead sea turtle released in 2021, courtesy of Vanessa Kahn/New England Aquarium.

Surgically implanted tags offer rare insight into rehabilitated sea turtles

Kristine Sabillo 25 Mar 2025
Banner image of a bobcat by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.com

How bobcats protect us from diseases, Mongabay podcast explores

Mongabay.com 24 Mar 2025

Court orders Trump administration to address pesticide risks to endangered species

Bobby Bascomb 20 Mar 2025

US jury sides with pipeline company in lawsuit against Greenpeace

Bobby Bascomb 20 Mar 2025
Image of a painted woolly bat. Image by Abu Hamas via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Scientists cherish win against online ornamental trade in bats

Spoorthy Raman 20 Mar 2025

Rep from American Samoa calls for opening protected Pacific waters to tuna fishing

Edward Carver 19 Mar 2025

Beyond the screen: DCEFF 2025

19 Mar 2025
North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis).

Counting whales by eavesdropping on their chatter, with help from machine learning

Abhishyant Kidangoor 18 Mar 2025
Film poster for Out of Plain Sight shows a barrel floating in the ocean

500,000 barrels of DDT in the sea: Interview with documentary directors on California coast crisis

Liz Kimbrough 17 Mar 2025

‘Sham’ federal firings suspended, but NOAA’s future remains uncertain

Bobby Bascomb 14 Mar 2025
A California ground squirrel, which usually eats seeds and acorns, hunts a vole. Image courtesy of Sonja Wild/UC Davis.

California ground squirrels shock scientists by hunting and eating voles

Shanna Hanbury 14 Mar 2025
A monarch butterfly. Image by Sean Ewing via Pexels.

One in five butterflies lost in the US since 2000, study finds

Bobby Bascomb 14 Mar 2025

Re:wild and Age of Union announce conservation partnership

Maxwell Radwin 13 Mar 2025

Whale songs rise and fall with food supply, study finds.

Bobby Bascomb 12 Mar 2025
A collared wolf from the Druid pack

How one woman’s wolf ‘moon shot’ changed Yellowstone forever: Interview with director Tom Winston

Jeremy Hance 11 Mar 2025

US national park staff cuts put nature and visitors at risk

Bobby Bascomb 10 Mar 2025
A coral reef and marine life in the waters off Raja Ampat in Southwest Papua province, Indonesia. Image courtesy of Econusa.

Indonesia seeks alternative funding as USAID freeze delays marine conservation efforts

Basten Gokkon 7 Mar 2025
A fisherman at the Laa River, North Morowali, cleans clams before selling them.

‘Without us, no scrutiny’: Indonesia’s independent media count cost of US funding cuts

Mongabay.com 6 Mar 2025

‘Misguided & lazy’ staff cuts at NOAA will hurt global science, experts warn

Bobby Bascomb 5 Mar 2025
Banner image of the American crocodile by Joseph Ricketts, courtesy of FWC.

Researchers track Florida’s crocodiles to increase acceptance amid urbanization

Kristine Sabillo 5 Mar 2025
Banner image: A sea turtle swims over a coral reef off the coast of Australia. Image by Jordan Robins via Ocean Image Bank.

The U.S. terminated its 30×30 conservation plan but this also presents an opportunity (commentary)

Angelo Villagomez, Dr. Alia Hidayat 26 Feb 2025
Banner image of Agroecotettix silverheelsi from Texas courtesy of JoVonn Hill.

16 new-to-science grasshopper species found in US, Mexico deserts

Kristine Sabillo 21 Feb 2025

Wisdom, the world’s oldest known bird at 74, has a new chick

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Feb 2025
A coal-fired power plant at night in the nickel industrial area in Halmahera.

US security think tank warns of China’s grip over Indonesian nickel industry

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Feb 2025

Bonobos can recognize ignorance and help, a new ‘milestone’ in ape intelligence

Shanna Hanbury 18 Feb 2025

Climate change made LA fires more likely amid hot, dry conditions: Report

Bobby Bascomb 14 Feb 2025

Fossil fuel, plastic, and agrichemical companies coordinate social media on climate change, study finds.

Bobby Bascomb 13 Feb 2025

‘Truffle dogs’ help sniff out two new truffle species

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Feb 2025

Petition calls on EPA to tighten pesticide rules to protect bees

Bobby Bascomb 12 Feb 2025
Banner image of a roof rat (Rattus rattus) by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Surge in rat numbers linked to climate warming, urbanization: Study

Kristine Sabillo 7 Feb 2025

A dramatic rise in microplastics found in human brains, study finds

Bobby Bascomb 7 Feb 2025

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