Hedgehogs, elephants, pangolins, bears or fennec foxes: many wild species are sold as pets, hunting trophies, for traditional ...

Tropical rainforests are home to almost two-thirds of all vertebrate species and three-quarters of all tree species: they are ...

What do you do when one of the most lethal substances to aquatic life emanates from every tire on the road? That's the ...

Hawaiʻi is famous for its unique wildlife. But some of the islands’ most remarkable creatures have been flying under the ...

A new scientific study from the Giant Sequoia Lands Coalition (GSLC) reveals the current state of California’s giant sequoia range and quantifies the alarming extent of damage caused by extreme ...

By the Early Oligocene Glacial Maximum, atmospheric CO2 was around 600 parts per million (ppm), after falling from roughly ...

Researchers used advanced habitat modeling to identify where the endangered butternut tree can survive and thrive again.

Plants on remote islands get less disease — but isolation reshapes which species dominate, and those species are the most ...

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Climate Change and Environmental Sciences category has gone in this ...

Cholera-causing bacteria are locked in an evolutionary arms race with a viral nemesis, according to a new genomic study.

Human population and consumption have surpassed Earth’s limits, increasing risks to climate and global stability.