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Confiscated corals now at New York Aquarium. Image courtesy of the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Seized corals find safe harbor in New York Aquarium

Kristine Sabillo 15 Aug 2025

PFAS ‘forever’ chemicals found in 98% of US waters tested

Bobby Bascomb 14 Aug 2025
A crew of firefighters fights the Vees Fire near Ten Sleep, Wyoming, in July 2025.

Fixing forests or fueling fires? Scientists split over active management

John Cannon 13 Aug 2025
A gray wolf

Wolves’ continued spread in California brings joy, controversy & conflicts

Spoorthy Raman 11 Aug 2025
Sunflower sea star in Knight Inlet, Canada. Image courtesy of Grant Callegari/Hakai Institute.

Scientists identify the bacterium behind billions of sea star deaths

Shreya Dasgupta 8 Aug 2025
Rex Mann. Image courtesy of the American Chestnut Foundation.

Rex Mann, American chestnut evangelist, died July 2, aged 81

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Aug 2025
Devils Hole pupfish in the Ash Meadows Fish Conservation Facility. Photo by Olin Feuerbacher/USFWS

Devils Hole pupfish hit by micro-tsunami from 8.8-magnitude Russian earthquake

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Aug 2025

A sales-pitch pivot brings deep-sea mining closer to reality

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 31 Jul 2025
John Robbins in his 70s. Image courtesy of the Food Revolution Network.

John Robbins, heir to an ice cream empire who chose a life of principle, dies at 77

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Jul 2025

Trump Environmental Protection Agency moves to repeal finding that allows climate regulation

Associated Press 29 Jul 2025
Golden oyster mushrooms. Image by Jordan Cook via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Golden oyster mushrooms are crowding out native fungi in North America

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Jul 2025

Coral restoration after devasting Deepwater Horizon spill shows promise

Mongabay.com 28 Jul 2025

Challenges persist in TMC’s bid to mine the deep sea, even after boost from Trump

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 24 Jul 2025
Researcher Kelly Pitts samples tissue from a great star coral. Image courtesy of Hunter Noren.

Probiotics slow a deadly disease in Florida coral, study finds

Shanna Hanbury 23 Jul 2025

Trump’s budget would end 7 decades of climate data collection

Bobby Bascomb 23 Jul 2025

A look at megafires as an Oregon wildfire approaches the 100,000-acre mark

Associated Press 23 Jul 2025

James ‘Buddy’ Powell, defender of manatees, died on July 19, aged 70

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Jul 2025

Bees have some ways to cope with a warming Earth, but researchers fear for their future

Associated Press 21 Jul 2025
The nearly $3 billion Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project along the Mississippi River, intended to stave off coastal land loss in southeastern Louisiana, is seen during a flyover with the environmental coalition group Restore the Mississippi River Delta, Aug. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Jack Brook, File)

Louisiana cancels $3 billion coastal restoration project funded by oil spill settlement

Associated Press 18 Jul 2025
Sunset at Joshua Tree National Park

In a warming world, can California save its Joshua trees?

Maya L. Kapoor 17 Jul 2025
Palmeiras' Vitor Roque sits on the side of the pitch in a cooling mist after being substituted during the Club World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Palmeiras and Botafogo in Philadelphia, Sunday, June 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

How climate change could force FIFA to rethink the World Cup calendar

Associated Press 17 Jul 2025
Sahara mustard plants in California.

In California, an invasive mustard is destabilizing desert plant communities

Maya L. Kapoor 16 Jul 2025

Native American teens kayak major US river to celebrate removal of dams and return of salmon

Associated Press 15 Jul 2025

Wildfire along Grand Canyon’s North Rim destroys historic lodge and is spreading rapidly

Associated Press 14 Jul 2025
A male pygmy hippo calf was born at Tanganyika Wildlife Park, in the U.S. state of Kansas, on June 26, 2025. Image courtesy of Tanganyika Wildlife Park.

Rare pygmy hippo born in Kansas zoo offers hope for endangered species

Shreya Dasgupta 10 Jul 2025
Squat lobsters and soft coral in the deep sea.

U.S. federal agency clears ways for deep-sea mining — and companies are lining up

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Jul 2025

Major reports about how climate change affects the US are removed from websites

Associated Press 1 Jul 2025

NOAA delays the cutoff of key satellite data for hurricane forecasting

Associated Press 30 Jun 2025
Mikayla Raines. Photo courtesy of Save a Fox Rescue

Mikayla Raines, YouTuber who rescued unwanted foxes, died on June 20th, aged 30

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Jun 2025
The Miami Bull, a robot-like statue of a bull, is meant to emulate Wall Street’s “Charging Bull,” and was unveiled to kick off the Bitcoin 2022 conference.

Bitcoin boom comes with huge intensifying environmental footprint

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 25 Jun 2025
wo whales allokelping, with a small length of kelp stem visible between them. Center for Whale Research, NMFS NOAA Permit 27038

Orcas discovered making tools from seaweed to ‘massage’ each other

Liz Kimbrough 25 Jun 2025
Workers prep poultry at the meatpacking company JBS in the Brazilian state of Paraná. Image by Eraldo Peres/Associated Press.

Meatpacking giant JBS debuts on NYSE six months after $5m Trump donation

Shanna Hanbury 25 Jun 2025

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