I discovered three new geckos in Cambodia’s limestone caves – and that’s not all we found | Cambodia
It can be daunting entering a cave. It is an underground world that possibly hasn’t been explored before. The first…
‘Agriculture of life’: the Rio families growing bananas to protect the world’s largest urban forest | Trees and forests
The sound of the scythes wielded by brothers Jorge and Ubirajara Cardia breaks the silence in the hills of Vargem…
Butterflies crossing oceans, moths navigating by the stars: unravelling the mysteries of insect migrations | Insects
On a cloudless sunny day in October 1950, ornithologists Elizabeth and David Lack stood on a mountain pass in the…
Surfing’s big break: how climate crisis insurance may save El Salvador’s waves | Oceans
In the late 1990s in El Salvador, Rodrigo Barraza went in search of every surfer’s dream: a pristine wave, far…
‘We cannot replace USAID, but we can do big things’: conservation plots a future without American money | Conservation
On 22 January 2024, at the inauguration of the current Liberian president, Joseph Boakai, the US-based Liberian poet Patricia Jabbeh…
Create hedgehog havens – and seven other ways to help our prickly friends | Environment
With stumpy, speedy legs, questing snouts and a fierce quiver of needles, hedgehogs are enchantingly strange, like fantasy creatures from…
Help a toad across the road – and five more ways to save these endangered amphibians | Amphibians
There’s a touch of old magic about toads, those shapeshifters of myth, superstition and folklore. Charismatic creatures with the pleasing…
Large tortoiseshell butterfly confirmed no longer extinct in UK | Wildlife
The large tortoiseshell – an elusive and enigmatic butterfly that became extinct in Britain in the last century – is…
Pascale Moehrle pressed Europe to take its seas seriously
Pascale Moehrle, who led Oceana’s European office from 2019 to 2025, spent more than four decades working on wildlife conservation…
Sri Lankan waters under ‘close watch’ following wreckage of Iranian warship
At least 90 bodies were recovered from the wreckage of the IRIS Dena, an Iranian warship that was torpedoed by…
Nations not on track to meet UN 2030 pesticide risk reduction targets: Study
New research finds that most countries are trending in the wrong direction when it comes to meeting the U.N.’s 2030…
The rate of global warming is accelerating, study finds
Earth has been steadily warming since the start of the Industrial Revolution, when humans began emitting greenhouse gases at scale.…
Indonesian communities push to reclaim lands following company permit revocations
In January, the Indonesian government ordered the revocation of PT TPL’s forest utilization permit, along with those of 27 other…
This bird is disappearing from Indonesia’s forests for its song
The rising popularity of songbird singing competitions in Indonesia has led to the dramatic decline of the white-rumped shama, a…
Climate or biodiversity? Global study maps out forestation’s dilemma
A new study maps areas designated for potential carbon dioxide removal projects, such as planting forests or bioenergy crops, that…
Portugal fined £8.7m by EU court for failing to protect biodiversity | Portugal
Portugal has been fined €10m (£8.7m) by the EU’s court of justice for failing to comply with environmental laws that…
Seafood fraud is rampant, imperiling fish populations, report finds
Up to roughly 20% of aquatic products are intentionally mislabeled as the wrong species or otherwise fraudulent, posing environmental and…
A sanctuary… for glacier ice?
Scientists in Antarctica have just inaugurated the first global repository of mountain ice cores. As the climate crisis melts glaciers…
Beetle known for ravaging mango trees now killing baobabs, study finds
Researchers say baobabs face a potential new threat from the mango stem borer, a beetle long known to devastate other…
Archived camera-trap images bring Thailand’s tapirs into focus
Archived camera-trapping images have revealed a new stronghold for Asian tapirs in Khlong Seang–Khao Sok Forest Complex, in southern Thailand.…