Trump officials use ‘God Squad’ to yank endangered species protections for Rice’s whales
In the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico lives one of the world’s rarest and most elusive…
Monarch butterflies in Mexico forests rebounded slightly this year
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When the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus published Systema Naturae in 1735, he set out to classify every living…
Costa Rica reversed deforestation and regrew its rainforest. How?
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Photos: Baby flying foxes at Australia’s bat hospital in Queensland
FAR NORTH QUEENSLAND, Australia — Australia is famously a place with some of the world’s most dangerous and…
Polar bears and climate change: New research in Norway has scientists baffled
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Great Barrier Reef and climate change: See the largest effort to save Australia’s gem
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Kestrels, owls, and other raptors are helping farmers control pests
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Colorado’s wolf release program | Vox
On a sunny morning two years ago, a group of state officials stood in the mountains of northwestern…
Madagascar’s chameleons and lemurs face wildfires fueled by climate change
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The world’s lemurs are going extinct. This is the only way to save them.
On a cloudless morning in September, sunlight poured through the canopy of a banyan tree near the banks…
Green sea turtles, made famous by Finding Nemo, make a stunning recovery
Scientists who study wildlife are often the bearers of bad news — this species or that is headed…