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Rhino poaching doesn’t happen just in the wilderness now. It happens in the suburbs.
A new study of deep-sea amphipods living six miles beneath the sea’s surface finds surprising levels of toxic chemicals.
Thanks to overfishing and climate change, the birds are caught in an ecological trap that could lead to starvation.
Another reason to oppose President Trump’s proposed border wall with Mexico: It would be devastating for wildlife.
In Washington State, biologists and conservationists are working to open the wilderness (and people’s minds) to the Great Bear.
Thanks to the Trump administration’s regulatory freeze, the endangered rusty patched bumblebee might not get the protections it desperately needs.
Is the state’s plan good science or just more predator persecution?
A new study suggests atmospheric currents like the Pineapple Express can cause serious devastation of wildlife.
Plunging giraffe numbers have led the IUCN to declare it vulnerable to extinction.
The Philippines just set aside more than 100,000 acres for pangolins, hornbills, forest turtles, and the mysterious, mustachioed “bearcat.”
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