By 1970, scientists had spent 65 years thinking the black lion tamarin, a small monkey with a spectacular mane, was extinct. That year, locals found a small population of the species (Leontopithecus ...

Efforts to restore the red-legged frog to Southern California, where it had all but disappeared, seemed doomed when the COVID-19 pandemic struck and restrictions were put in place at the U.S.-Mexico ...

In the mist-wrapped folds of Sri Lanka’s Knuckles Mountain Range, a UNESCO-recognized world heritage site, where clouds softly wrap the rugged peaks in a soft embrace, a group of scientists recently ...

During the second half of the 20th century, Thailand’s forest cover plummeted from around 50% to 25% due to urbanization and rapid economic development. Although legislation such as the Community ...

Some 30,000 years ago, Stone Age people decorated a cave, today known as Cueva de los Casares, in central Spain with pictures of mating humans (most famously), geometric shapes, and animals. The most ...

The Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) recently announced the creation of a formal role for Indigenous peoples, giving them a voice for the first time in one of the Amazon Basin’s most ...

Hundreds of wildfires across Europe have burned at least 1 million hectares, or around 2.5 million acres, since the start of the year. That’s made 2025 the worst year for the continent since official ...

For decades, the case for saving tropical forests has been cast in terms of carbon. Trees sequester vast quantities of it; ...

A growing number of oceans-based solutions to the climate crisis have been tried or devised in recent years, thanks largely ...

In the last year, Bangladesh has seen an about-turn from occupying forest land in the name of development activities such as ...

The megafish of the Mekong River are shrinking, a new study has found. In the most comprehensive analysis of species size in ...

You don’t need safari experience to understand the allure: spotting majestic wildlife in sweeping landscapes is inherently ...