Whale strike risk rises as international shipping reroutes around South Africa
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In April this year, two Bryde’s whales washed-up dead-on Dyer Island, a small nature reserve…New golf-ball sized blue octopus species now identified in the Galapagos
Jun 5, 2026, 12:37 am By
While on a deep-sea expedition in the Galapagos in 2015, scientists found a golf-ball sized,…Indigenous communities in eastern Indonesia revive systems for marine protection
Jun 5, 2026, 12:27 am By
Across the small islands of eastern Indonesia that lie within the Wallacea region, one of the…Sea cucumber tissue survives for years in open water, study finds
Jun 5, 2026, 12:16 am By
Severed tissue from a cold-water sea cucumber can survive, heal, and even move independently for…Rights groups renew call to free jailed Cambodian environmental activists
Jun 4, 2026, 10:51 pm By
BANGKOK — Seven hundred days after activists from the environmental group Mother Nature Cambodia…Local indigenous people get more land in a DRC community forest
Jun 4, 2026, 5:12 pm By
Tshopo province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo granted 31 community forest land titles to…Pilot project in San Francisco Bay aims to help ships avoid gray whales
Jun 4, 2026, 12:44 pm By
Starting in 2018, gray whales began regularly stopping in California’s San Francisco Bay, where…Canadian government endorses a plan to move whales from shuttered Marineland park to US and Spain
Jun 4, 2026, 11:43 am By
TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s government endorsed a plan Wednesday to move the last remaining captive…Offshore wind power cables can affect sensory system of sharks and rays: studies
Jun 4, 2026, 11:36 am By
As offshore wind farms expand rapidly in the global renewable energy transition, scientists are…Bangladesh struggles to enforce ‘polluter pays’ principle amid legal delays
Jun 4, 2026, 11:07 am By
The existence of the “polluter pays” principle (PPP) in Bangladesh, at least on paper, dates…In Malawi, one woman’s farm shows what’s possible with land and support
Jun 4, 2026, 7:34 am By
CHIRADZULU, Malawi — Diana Sitima’s farm on the outskirts of Malawi’s commercial capital,…Confinement and disinfected bedding: An ape sanctuary in DRC responds to Ebola
Jun 4, 2026, 5:47 am By
Since May 23, more than 200 primates housed at the Lwiro Primates Rehabilitation Center (LPRC) in…Bengal tigers in Cambodia? Reintroduction plan raises questions
Jun 4, 2026, 3:15 am By
Sat Born, 56, recalls freezing at the forest’s entrance when he first saw it. “Its head was this…New records of ‘lost’ bamboo shark confirmed in Madagascar
Jun 4, 2026, 2:14 am By
For nearly 20 years, the blue-spotted bamboo shark, found only in Madagascar, went scientifically…Scientists warn of climate blind spot as U.S. dismantles ocean sensors
Jun 4, 2026, 1:50 am By
Over the next 15 months, major sensor arrays that have provided crucial, decade-long observations of…Gold mining damages dung beetle communities in the Amazon, study finds
Jun 4, 2026, 1:18 am By
Small-scale gold mining is a major cause of deforestation in the Amazon, and researchers found that…Tiny ‘sesame’ sea slug discovered in Taiwan is first of its genus named in 30 years
Jun 4, 2026, 12:27 am By
Researchers have found a new-to-science species of a tiny sea slug with black and yellow spots…How small actions can become planetary forces
Jun 3, 2026, 8:16 pm By
Thomas Crowther begins his book with a snakebite that was not, in any conventional sense, dangerous.…It’s time to engage Mennonite communities to reduce deforestation in Latin America (analysis)
Jun 3, 2026, 5:16 pm By
In the global debate over tropical deforestation, the usual cast of villains is well established:…France to send its last captive orcas to marine park, not sanctuary
Jun 3, 2026, 2:23 pm By
The French government recently announced it has greenlit a plan to send its last captive cetaceans…
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