Protecting 30% of planet could bolster economy, study says

Nearly a third of the world’s oceans and land area could be placed under environmental protections…

Seafood fraud: why your Mediterranean swordfish might actually be shark

Franco Comes last caught sharks more than six months ago, while longline fishing for swordfish in…

‘Playing the hand of God’: scientists’ experiment aims to help trees survive climate change

There is an impressive array of pine species at the Nature Conservancy’s Plum Creek preserve in…

‘Landscape of fear’: what a mass of rotting reindeer carcasses taught scientists

In August 2016, a park ranger stumbled upon 323 dead wild tundra reindeer in Norway’s remote…

Halve UK pesticide use to save insects, say conservationists

The use of pesticides in the UK must be at least halved to reverse steep losses…

Great white vanishing act: where have South Africa’s famous sharks gone?

For those who watch the waves, rocks and beaches for the distinctive silhouettes and dorsal fins,…

Bright feathers, bright brains: hummingbirds ‘can order numerically’

Hummingbirds are not only bright in appearance but also in brain, it would seem, with new…

Congress wary on future aid as well-connected businesses rake in millions

The revelation that well-heeled businesses and nonprofits benefited from emergency small business loans is making it…

Lawmakers paralyzed over response to Russian bounty intel

Sen. Roy Blunt said, “I think there are contradictory pieces of intelligence on this,” after a…

Birdwatch: a pair of barn owls make our midsummer’s evening

We came in search of quail – surely one of Britain’s most elusive birds – and,…