Rare red bat rescued in Maine gobbles up mealworms
Popular Scienceby Laura Baisas4d ago
A rare Eastern red bat (Lasiurus borealis) is recovering after being found struggling in the surf on a Maine beach.
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top 43%Sochi Reopens Beaches After Drone Attack on Oil Tanker - The Moscow Times
The Moscow Timesby The Moscow Times4d ago
Authorities in Russia’s Black Sea resort city of Sochi reopened beaches Thursday, saying tests found no oil contamination after a drone attack set an oil tanker ablaze off the coast earlier this...
The Politics Behind India’s Wildlife Postage Stamps
Frontlineby Biswajit Sarmah4d ago
The 1970s are widely considered the decade of ecological restoration in India. The Union government enacted the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, and launched Project Tiger in 1973, which laid down...
Can hope save the planet? An endangered parrot that is beating the odds can help us find out | Helen Pilcher
The Guardianby Helen Pilcher4d ago
The new Living Planet Report is out. Published every two years, it assesses the health of the natural world and, historically, it’s made for gloomy reading.
People & Profit - How long will the global energy crunch last?
France 24by Kate MOODY4d ago
How long will the global energy crunch last? To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement.
Sperm whale study highlights need for 'extensive and dynamic' conservation
Phys.orgby University4d ago
Sperm whale study highlights need for 'extensive and dynamic' conservation A new study of sperm whales highlights the need for ocean conservation that covers large areas—with boundaries redrawn as...
Hundreds of thousands still at risk of climate-linked floods in Nepal
NBC Newsby Evan Bush4d ago
Long before a wave of water rushed down the Bhote Koshi river and its tributaries, researchers were working to calculate just how many people are living downstream and exposed to potentially...
Gas prices face new threat as Hurricane Isaias forces Gulf oil shutdowns
NBC Newsby Rob Wile4d ago
A powerful storm snaking its way through the Gulf of Mexico threatens to disrupt U.S. oil and gasoline production at a moment when retail gas and diesel prices are squeezing American consumers and...
South Korea strengthens migrant fisher protections. Advocates are not impressed.
Mongabay Globalby Yenni Kwok4d ago
- South Korea has recently revamped national guidelines on human trafficking to make it easier for law enforcement officials to spot and stop forced labor and other abuses in the fishing industry.
Wildlife populations have declined 73% since 1970 – but many of the world’s animals still aren’t being counted
The Conversation UKby Nick Isaac, Macroecologist, Biodiversity Modelling & Analysis Group, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology4d ago
Wildlife populations around the world have declined by an average of 73% since 1970. That’s according to the WWF’s new 2026 Living Planet Index – a major estimate, updated every two years, of the...
Australia’s new eco police flexes muscles with major wildlife trafficking bust
Mongabay Globalby Naina Rao4d ago
Australian authorities have disrupted an alleged wildlife trafficking syndicate, uncovering a clandestine operation where smuggled native animals were hoarded alongside caches of cash and gold...
Africa’s wildlife population plunges by 80 percent in five decades, WWF warns
RFI Englishby RFI4d ago
Africa’s wildlife population plunges by 80 percent in five decades, WWF warns Wildlife populations monitored across Africa have declined by an average of 80 percent over the past five decades...
Mixing plant material with manure may be key to profitable biogas production
Phys.orgby Jeff Mulhollem4d ago
Mixing plant material with manure may be key to profitable biogas production The U.S. dairy industry is a major contributor to agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, with manure storage and...
Invasive species have more severe environmental impacts in Global South, study finds
Mongabay Globalby Karen Coates4d ago
- There has been a long-standing assumption that invasive alien species have greater biodiversity impacts in wealthier Global North countries than in the Global South.
CM Naidu meets PM Modi, seeks Central help for Andhra Pradesh to tackle El Niño impact
Hindustan Timesby Srinivasa Rao Apparasu4d ago
CM Naidu meets PM Modi, seeks Central help for Andhra Pradesh to tackle El Niño impact Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to extend...
Keralam has sought exclusion of farmlands and human settlements from ESA: Minister
The Hinduby The Hindu Bureau4d ago
The Keralam government has submitted a report to the Centre seeking to exclude farm lands and human settlements from the Ecologically Sensitive Area (ESA) list, Agriculture Minister T.
Did two of the lemurs stolen in Bangladesh end up in India? Officials are investigating
Mongabay Globalby Abu Siddique4d ago
- The case of missing lemurs from a Bangladeshi safari park exposes major gaps in wildlife conservation enforcement, locally and regionally.
Nikhil questions adequacy of ₹2,500 relief for drought-hit farmers
The Hinduby The Hindu Bureau4d ago
Janata Dal (Secular) youth wing president Nikhil Kumaraswamy has questioned whether the State government’s announcement of ₹2,500 each for farmers will compensate for the losses suffered by those...
Logging threatens Bornean forest earmarked for Indigenous Peace Park
Mongabay Globalby Naina Rao4d ago
Part of a forest in Malaysian Borneo that Indigenous communities had envisioned co-managing and self-governing has been turned into an active commercial logging concession, according to a recent...
Sea surface temperatures suggest El Niño is strengthening
Phys.orgby World Meteorological Organization4d ago
Sea surface temperatures suggest El Niño is strengthening Sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific are forecast to increase to record levels during October–December...