3+ hour, 31+ min ago  (866+ words) Coyotes are now present in almost every major urban-metropolitan area in the United States, yet conflicts between the canines and humans are exceptionally low. Between 1960 and 2006, only 146 documented coyote attacks on humans occurred in the U. S. and Canada. Yet there are…...

4+ hour, 22+ min ago  (970+ words) In eastern Madagascar, Andasibe-Mantadia National Park and the Analamazoatra Special Reserve shelter around a dozen species of lemurs, alongside an extraordinary array of animals and plants, many of which are found nowhere else on Earth. Once connected by continuous rainforest,…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago  (1227+ words) Researchers at the California Academy of Sciences kept busy throughout 2025. Along with collaborators from across the globe, they described 72 new-to-science species from six continents " creatures living in unexplored ocean depths, in plain sight on the Gal'pagos Islands, and in a…...

11+ mon, 2+ day ago  (1586+ words) Xam" was about 2 months old when he was found in a rural part of Sinop municipality in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. This region is part of the "arc of deforestation" carving through the Amazon, and is frequently hit…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (1005+ words) BUEA, Cameroon " To his fishing peers, Ojah Alfred, 45, is a fisher like they are. But to Cameroon's scientific community, he is also a scientist " a citizen scientist. For eight years, Alfred, alongside more than 80 other fishers across Cameroon's three coastal…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (379+ words) By that measure, vulnerability is widespread. Two-thirds of parks were identified as highly exposed to at least one potentially transformative threat, including wildfire, drought, forest pests, or sea-level rise. In total, 77% ranked as highly vulnerable either overall or to a…...

14+ hour, 24+ min ago  (247+ words) In an era when environmental writing often oscillates between alarm and reassurance, this biography offers something different. It suggests that care begins with looking, and that looking takes time. Schaller's method was slow, physically demanding, and unsuited to shortcuts. It…...

6+ day, 34+ min ago  (752+ words) Researchers pulled 24 tiny new creatures from a deep abyss in the central Pacific Ocean, some with long, spindly legs and others with more squat, compact bodies. Some appeared to feed on the sediment itself, while others had large claws suggesting…...

2+ week, 17+ hour ago  (1703+ words) The gunfire began just before six in the morning. At first, Christine Lain thought it might be a drill. Upemba National Park had run exercises like this before. Rangers had trained for the possibility that armed groups might one day…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago  (441+ words) Among the many spectacular reef fishes swimming the Indo-Pacific corals, from Africa to Oceania, is the big-eyed, bulge-faced, thick-lipped, blue-green humphead wrasse, also known as the Napoleon wrasse. It's among the world's largest reef fish, sought for its flavor and…...