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What do the Clemson, Auburn, Louisiana State and the University of Missouri have to do with saving endangered species? More than you might imagine, thanks to the coincidence of their common mascot, the tiger. While most people will cheer for their team without giving the mascot a second thought, the...
The findings suggest that sea cows have been engineering ecosystems in the Persian Gulf for tens of millions of years...
A massive fossil site in Qatar has uncovered the world’s richest sea cow bonebed and a new species, Salwasiren qatarensis....
What if your next vacation turned into a masterclass in conservation? Across India are stays that go beyond bed and breakfast; here, windows open into the wild. Far off the tourist trail, these stays border reserves and sanctuaries, where they share ground with the wilderness. Their doors open out i...
When U.S. President Donald Trump addressed the United Nations General Assembly in late 2025 and dismissed climate change as a “con job”, the scientific community reacted with alarm. Months earlier, The Guardian had reported that his anti-climate agenda could result in 1.3 million additional deaths g...
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Climate change—including high temperatures and heat waves—has been shown to pose serious risks to the environment, food systems, and human health, but new research finds that it may also lead to delays in early childhood development. Published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, the s...
A Galápagos bird species is stunning behaviorists with their “freewheeling” lifestyles. Described in the journal PLOS One, female Nazca boobies (Sula granti) will openly mate with potentially dozens of males before settling on a parenting partner. What’s more, the conspicuous behavior doesn’t appear...
The planet has been flipping between two main modes of carbon recovery depending on the state of coral reefs, new research suggests...
Members of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians salvaged a beached whale’s remains, a practice that hadn't been performed in generations...
In November 2023, naturalist Gim Siew Tan chanced upon an unusual plant with whitish-peach flowers growing near the buttress of a tree at a popular picnic site in Hulu Langat Forest Reserve in Selangor, Malaysia. Researchers subsequently collected and analyzed specimens of the plant and found that i...
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Forget every notion you have about national parks. We are not trekking on dusty trails or climbing ancient granite cliffs. We are going to a place where the very earth is an illusion, a magnificent trick of nature. Welcome to Keibul Lamjao, the world’s only floating national park. This isn’t just a ...
Fish were discovered to make sounds more than 2,000 years ago, but they have gone largely unheard by humans. While a typical, bustling coral reef may be home to dozens of fish species, until recently, identifying specific species’ sounds was practically impossible. Previous methods of studying fish ...
I've spent my entire life living on one coastline or another, and while it's made for many wonderful beach days, the salt air hasn't always been kind to my aging cars. It's with this in mind that Tru Form Tiny has designed its new custom Urban Park Max 37 to stand up to the elements, while offering a spacious and li...
Rabbit-sized, nocturnal and elusive, the greater mouse-deer hadn’t been seen in Singapore for more than 80 years. Researchers long presumed it was locally extinct. In 2008, however, researchers confirmed sightings of the pint-sized ungulates, Tragulus napu, on Pulau Ubin, a 10-square-kilometer (4-sq...
The United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), the world’s top decision-making body on the environment, opened its seventh session in Nairobi on Monday, aiming to take action on critical environmental challenges amid deep geopolitical divisions. Global emissions have continued to climb, the world i...
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“People bathe in the river, they eat from the river — they live, dance and sing there,” says Dora Agudelo Vazquez. “Their whole lives are bound to the river.” Agudelo Vazquez, one of the guardians of the Atrato River, is sitting on a park bench in the main square of her hometown of El Carmen de Atra...
Species extinct as breeding birds in Britain since 1416 to be reintroduced in Barking and Dagenham as part of rewilding effort Above the roar of traffic, the rumble of the tube and the juddering construction noise of a towering new datacentre in Dagenham, east London, will soon rise a beautiful and ...
Australia is banning children under 16 from having social media accounts, becoming the first country to do so. The move aims to protect young people from harmful content and design features on social media platforms, but it remains unclear if it will be effective.
Norway has closed the door to deep-sea mining in its waters until at least 2029, stopping an industry that had been on the cusp of launching in spite the environmental risks it presented. On Dec. 3, Norway’s five political parties supporting the new government debated the fiscal budget. They agreed ...
From Dec. 8-12, Kenya will host delegates from governments, civil society, industry and scientific agencies for the United Nations Environment Assembly at a time of profound environmental challenges and growing geopolitical uncertainty. In the sixth session of the UNEA held in 2024, leaders promised...
