Earlier this week, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) approved Shell Gulf of Mexico Inc.'s multi-year Exploration ...

When a huge open-pit mine threatened a pristine lake and surrounding forest in British Columbia, Canada, Marilyn Baptiste ...

In a recent study, researchers investigated restoration of abandoned agricultural land in Ecuador, finding that planting trees and ...

If you Google "rainforest," you're almost assured to get a page of search results mostly about the tropics. ...

An unassuming brown bird, tiny both in body and population size, hovers on the edge of extinction as ...

Carbon emissions from human activities are the big player in global warming, and scientists have long known that ...

Deep in the dark, cool forests of Ecuador live strange and mysterious organisms. Some inhabit the trees and ...

Earlier this week, the Brazilian government announced the declaration of a new federal reserve deep in the Amazon ...

A strip of rainforest running along the northwestern Ecuadorian coast and up through Colombia is one of the ...

Elephants are worth 76 times more when they’re alive than dead, according to a new analysis released this ...

A mass of thousands of walruses were spotted hauled up on land in northwest Alaska during NOAA aerial ...

On Monday, September 22, two ivory poachers were arrested in Mozambique during a late-night raid near Niassa National ...

In one of the many major announcements that have come out of the UN Climate Summit in New ...

The vaquita is largely solitary, prefers shallow water, has a life-span of up to 20 years, and since ...

Once plentiful on a tiny coral atoll in the Indian Ocean, the Aldabra banded snail (Rachistia aldabrae) was ...

Monarch butterflies were once a common sight throughout the North American heartland. In Mexico, where they overwinter, single ...

“The air was literally filled with Pigeons; the light of noon-day was obscured as by an eclipse; the ...

In a YouTube video posted Monday, Leonardo DiCaprio challenged Canadian Prime Minister Stephan Harper to the Ice Bucket ...

Spanning 230 kilometers (143 miles) and comprising more than half a million hectares westward from the Cambodian border ...

A criminal organization involved in the illicit deforestation of large portions of Brazil's forests has been stopped. At ...

Roads make it possible to bring goods to market, to get to the office, to log a forest, ...

Illegal logging is taking a huge toll on forests around the world. Accurate estimates are hard to come ...

Researchers have discovered a new carnivorous water rat on the island of Sulawesi that's so unique it represents ...

In the first week of June, a huge elephant carcass was found in a swamp in Tsavo East ...

The Goldman Environmental Prize was awarded to six grassroots environmentalists from around the world in honor of their ...

According to a statement issued by Japan's fisheries agency, the whaling program will be scaled back for the ...

Most people are familiar with coral reefs, but very few have ever heard of their algal equivalent – ...