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Invasive parakeets threaten native bird species in Richmond Park while a disabled elephant calf reveals growing pressures on Asian herds. Britain also sets renewable energy records and experiences its hottest year ever in 2025.
Wildlife cameras in Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park have captured extraordinary footage that’s giving conservationists hope: an endangered Amur tigress strolling down a dirt road with five cubs trailing behind her. This November 2024 recording marks the first…
The natural world continues to surprise researchers with extraordinary animal behaviors that challenge our understanding of wildlife intelligence and adaptation. Three remarkable discoveries from 2024 showcase the incredible ingenuity animals display in their daily survival strategies. In Brazil, scientists witnessed…
The year 2025 brought both heartbreak and hope to the conservation world, as scientists officially documented extinctions while simultaneously discovering hundreds of new species. The dual nature of this scientific accounting reveals the complex reality of our planet’s biodiversity crisis.…
When 22-year-old Truphena Muthoni wrapped her arms around a royal palm tree in Nyeri, Kenya, and refused to let go for three days, she transformed a simple gesture into a powerful symbol of environmental resistance. Her 72-hour tree embrace, currently…
NYC pours funding into innovative bluebelt networks to combat intensifying cloudbursts and flood risks. Meanwhile, progressive leaders reframe climate action as economic relief while Trump dismisses environmental policies, and Wales launches its post-Brexit agricultural subsidy program.
While most environmental philanthropy operates on urgency—driven by campaigns, deadlines, and crisis messaging—a quieter group of donors has taken a fundamentally different approach. These philanthropists view environmental protection as a challenge requiring sustained capacity and institutional continuity, funding people and…
Nicaragua’s Bosawás Biosphere Reserve, Central America’s largest protected ecosystem spanning 2,860 square miles along the Honduran border, is facing an unprecedented environmental crisis. In 2024 alone, the reserve lost a staggering 286 square miles of forest—equivalent to 10% of its…
The environmental science community is mourning the loss of Emma Johnston, a pioneering marine ecologist and academic leader who died December 26, 2025, in Melbourne from cancer-related complications. Johnston, who had just begun her role as vice-chancellor of the University…
A chance discovery on a remote desert island in Mexico’s Gulf of California has led to a quarter-century scientific odyssey studying one of nature’s most unusual mammals. José Juan Flores Martínez, now an academic technician at Mexico’s National Autonomous University…
