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In a breathtaking display of marine wildlife behavior, photographer Charvet Drucker witnessed and captured an extraordinary survival story unfolding in the Salish Sea. While on a whale-watching expedition aboard a 20-foot rental boat, Drucker found herself at the center of…
A massive data center proposal in Bessemer, Alabama is facing mounting obstacles as the city council prepares for a crucial vote this Tuesday. The “hyperscale” facility, already unpopular with local residents, now confronts two significant new challenges: the discovery of…
A massive environmental disaster has unfolded along England’s Sussex coast, where millions of plastic bio-beads have contaminated Camber Sands beach following a mechanical failure at a Southern Water treatment facility. The local MP has described the incident as an “environmental…
After decades of silence, the vibrant calls of red-browed amazons are once again echoing through Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. In January 2025, twenty of these brilliantly colored green-and-red parrots were released into a forest reserve in Alagoas state, marking their return…
A chance encounter during a plant conservation survey has led to the discovery of a remarkable new bee species with an equally remarkable name. In 2019, researcher Kit Prendergast was studying insects that pollinate rare plants in Western Australia’s Bremer…
A devastating bird flu outbreak has decimated the world’s most important southern elephant seal breeding ground, killing an estimated 53,000 female seals on South Georgia Island since 2023. This staggering death toll represents approximately half of the island’s breeding population,…
Italy's proposed Messina Bridge could end centuries-old train ferry crossings between Sicily and mainland. Meanwhile, Vietnam's cave conservation efforts have transformed former hunters into wildlife protectors, helping species like slow lorises recover from near-extinction in ancient karst limestone regions.
Three and a half decades ago, Vietnamese hunter Hồ Khanh made an extraordinary discovery while seeking shelter from a storm—he had stumbled into what would later be identified as the world’s largest cave. But in that moment, his attention quickly…
Three infant gibbons—two siamangs and one Javan gibbon—now huddle together in a rescue center after Indonesian naval forces intercepted their traffickers in the Strait of Malacca in March 2025. The babies, barely six months old, represent the devastating human cost…
For decades, scientists believed that spiny-tailed iguanas living on Mexico’s remote Clarion Island were brought there by humans in recent decades. New genetic research has turned this assumption on its head, revealing that these reptiles are actually ancient natives who…
