1+ hour, 45+ min ago   (524+ words) By Christine Chen and David Stanway SYDNEY/SINGAPORE, Aug 31 (Reuters) – Coral reefs are experiencing bleaching events so frequently that they no longer have time to recover before the next one strikes, with global coral cover now well below normal levels…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (226+ words) LONDON, Aug 4 (Reuters) – The Bezos Earth Fund, established by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and Re:wild, co-founded by actor Leonardo DiCaprio, on ​Tuesday pledged an initial $200 million to support ‌the recovery of critically endangered species. • The Phoenix Species Project aims…...

4+ week, 1+ hour ago   (301+ words) By Huey Mun Leong SARAWAK, Malaysia, August 3 (Reuters) – Villagers in one indigenous community in Malaysia’s Sarawak state once lived by an unspoken rule: leave the crocodile be, ​and it will leave you alone in turn. But for ‌the community’s headman,…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (709+ words) WASHINGTON, Aug 3 (Reuters) – The Trump administration’s plan to relocate thousands of Department of Agriculture employees from the U.S. capital could risk research, trade and aid programs as staff decline to relocate, according to union surveys and interviews with 10 federal…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (737+ words) July 24 (Reuters) – High up on volcano summits, the Andean leaf-eared mouse is showing how life can thrive in places where humans cannot. This plucky rodent, according to researchers, has evolved an unusual mix of metabolic and genetic adaptations that help…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (178+ words) July 16 (Reuters) – Scientists have identified a new species of monkey in Democratic Republic of Congo’s ​rainforest, distinguished by patches of ‌light-colored skin around its mouth, Florida Atlantic University said in a statement. • The discovery marks only the fifth new ‌monkey…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (698+ words) WASHINGTON, June 9 (Reuters) – About 120 million years ago in what is now northwestern China, many kinds of birds flocked to a lakeside ecosystem. This dense avian population would have offered a smorgasbord for a small and opportunistic carnivorous dinosaur. Researchers have…...

4+ mon, 2+ day ago   (121+ words) WKZO Michigan DNR investigating deaths of five bald eagles in U.P. DELTA COUNTY, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is investigating the deaths of five bald eagles that were found between April 3 and April 17 in the…...

4+ mon, 4+ week ago   (743+ words) By Marcela Ayres, Lisandra Paraguassu and Manuela Andreoni BRASILIA/SAO PAULO, April 1 (Reuters) – After struggling for years to track and punish deforestation across the world’s largest rainforest, Brazil is recruiting new allies in the battle to protect the Amazon: bank…...

5+ mon, 4+ day ago   (397+ words) SAO PAULO, March 26 (Reuters) – The Brazilian government auctioned its first-ever public land concession for reforestation to startup Re.green, marking an initial attempt to use carbon credits to finance the recovery of ​millions of acres of degraded protected areas. Re....