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In a remarkable conservation success story, researchers in Australia have brought Campbell’s keeled glass-snail back from the brink of extinction through an innovative breeding and reintroduction program. The tiny species, officially still listed as extinct on the IUCN Red List,…
Small-scale farmers across Southeast Asia are struggling to prepare for the European Union’s sweeping new deforestation regulation, which could potentially shut them out of lucrative European markets despite their significant contributions to regional agriculture. The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), now…
Scientists predict enhanced Northern Lights visibility throughout 2026 as solar activity peaks, while Malaysia approves $70 million robotic submarine search for missing Flight MH370. Plus: Nepal's highway project threatens indigenous communities and Brigitte Bardot's wildlife advocacy legacy.
Conservation efforts typically respond to visible environmental damage—deforestation, declining fish populations, and shrinking protected areas. But what about the less obvious changes that haven’t yet reached crisis levels? A groundbreaking study led by William J. Sutherland of Cambridge University, published…
The Trump administration's aggressive dismantling of environmental protections creates unprecedented climate setbacks, as London Eye architect Julia Barfield proposes a massive 14-mile tidal lagoon to power Britain's AI energy demands. Plus conservation victories in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula and Burkina Faso.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List has formally declared several species extinct in 2025, marking the end of years-long scientific assessments that confirm what researchers have long suspected. While these species may have vanished from the…
In the late 1980s, something alarming began happening in the world’s most protected places. Cloud forests that had been shielded from chainsaws and development were suddenly losing species that had survived for millennia. Amphibians—frogs, toads, and salamanders that had thrived…
Environmental justice groups reel from abrupt EPA funding cuts after transformative community grants disappear. Alabama's civil rights history creates today's sky-high electricity rates and renewable energy resistance. Meanwhile, federal budget cuts threaten the world's most extensive living fungi collection at University of Kansas.
Kristina Maria Gjerde, the influential marine lawyer who dedicated her career to protecting the world’s unguarded oceans, died December 26th from pancreatic cancer at age 68. Known as the “mother of the high seas,” Gjerde transformed how the international community…
The world’s tropical forests experienced a complex year in 2025, marked by encouraging reductions in deforestation rates alongside the emergence of less visible but equally concerning threats. While several regions saw significant slowdowns in forest clearing, other areas continued to…
