Week in wildlife: harvest mice, a basking hippo and a hungry egret
The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world Continue reading…
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Labor greenlights contentious Robbins Island windfarm despite fears for endangered orange-bellied parrot
Environment advocates have called for important migratory shorebird habitat off Tasmania to be declared ‘no-go site’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Sign up for climate…
Children of the Storm
As 11-year-olds weathering poverty, we survived the winds and water of Hurricane Katrina along Alabama’s Gulf Coast. Twenty years later, we’re still wading through its wake. By Lee Hedgepeth BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala.—It was already too late.
Brunei built Southeast Asia’s longest bridge. What does this mean for wildlife?
For local communities in Brunei, the longest bridge in Southeast Asia does more than connect remote eastern areas to the country’s urban capital; it also opens up access to rainforests teeming with unique biodiversity and protected species. Ethnic groups in…
With Latest Round of Terminations, Trump Administration Continues Dismantling EPA’s Environmental Justice Portfolio
“Without EPA staff on the job, the air we breathe and the water we drink will be at greater risk from toxic pollution that causes cancer, asthma attacks, lung disease and other health threats,” one former staffer said. By Aman…
Climate Change Is Transforming Summer in Europe
A season of record wildfires and a wave of extreme heat is forcing Europe to confront difficult questions about how to adapt.
Brazil’s Atlantic Forest still losing ‘large amounts’ of mature forest, despite legal protection
By 1970, scientists had spent 65 years thinking the black lion tamarin, a small monkey with a spectacular mane, was extinct. That year, locals found a small population of the species (Leontopithecus chrysopygus) clinging to survival in a patch of…
The call of a native frog is heard again in Southern California thanks to help from Mexico and AI
THE SANTA ROSA PLATEAU ECOLOGICAL RESERVE, Calif. (AP) — Efforts to restore the red-legged frog to Southern California, where it had all but disappeared, seemed doomed when the COVID-19 pandemic struck and restrictions were put in place at the U.S.-Mexico…
Uncontacted Peruvian tribe on deadly collision course with loggers, group says
Survival International says Mashco Piro seen in nearby Amazon village in alarming sign group is under stress Members of an Indigenous tribe who live deep in Peru’s Amazon rainforest and avoid contact with outsiders have been reported entering a neighboring…
Officials struggle with land invasions in Mexico’s Balam Kú Biosphere Reserve
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s Balam Kú Biosphere Reserve has been invaded over the past year by people trying to establish a permanent settlement, and officials are racing to remove them before more of the forest is destroyed. Around 450 people…