When an ice shelf blocks a polar fjord, it sparks the creation of an ecosystem like no other: the epishelf lake. Meltwater ...

The past two years have been a dramatic period for conservation funding. The greatest attention has focused on the sudden ...

An oil well in Niger has spewed crude oil and gas for weeks, raising concerns about impacts on threatened Sahara antelope ...

As the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity’s 17th summit opens in Yerevan, Armenia, on Oct. 19, what’s at stake for ...

Typhoon Champi has moved from the western Pacific into the Philippine Sea and has become a Category 5 super typhoon, according to the U.S. National Weather Service. It had maximum sustained winds of ...

For nearly a decade, divers off Tasmania’s east coast have been getting a boost from the government to harvest the invasive sea urchins killing off kelp forests that fringe the Australian island state ...

An old elephant can remember where to find water when the usual pools have dried. Her death leaves the herd with fewer ways ...

Every year, Amazonian rivers spill over their banks and flood the forests around them for months. These wetlands cover around 30% of the Brazilian Amazon and are often home to riverine families, who ...