4+ hour, 23+ min ago  (1005+ words) RAGLAN, Aotearoa New Zealand " Imagine a forest floor so thick with juicy, crunchy purple tawa (Beilschmiedia tawa) fruit in summertime that you can't cross it without skidding and falling. Birds so fat with toromiro (Pectinopitys ferruginea) berries that they explode…...

1+ hour, 48+ min ago  (866+ words) Coyotes are now present in almost every major urban-metropolitan area in the United States, yet conflicts between the canines and humans are exceptionally low. Between 1960 and 2006, only 146 documented coyote attacks on humans occurred in the U. S. and Canada. Yet there are…...

4+ hour, 3+ min ago  (767+ words) Some companies have made headway toward removing deforestation from their supply chains in the last year, in preparation for the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), according to a new report by the NGO Global Canopy. This shows that the upcoming…...

2+ hour, 38+ min ago  (970+ words) In eastern Madagascar, Andasibe-Mantadia National Park and the Analamazoatra Special Reserve shelter around a dozen species of lemurs, alongside an extraordinary array of animals and plants, many of which are found nowhere else on Earth. Once connected by continuous rainforest,…...

10+ hour, 1+ min ago  (258+ words) Mongabay This ghost octopus is facing a new threat If you liked this story, share it with other people. China is one of the biggest players in the race to mine the deep sea " and a joint Mongabay-CNN investigation shows…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (1740+ words) Security has also been reworked. Traditional responses, often slow and reactive, left communities exposed. Virunga has developed rapid-response systems and forward operating bases designed to shorten response times to threats and create localized stability. These are paired with economic initiatives,…...

6+ hour, 26+ min ago  (1230+ words) By most estimates, Solwara I is among the most valuable seafloor massive sulfides ever discovered. And it is not only rich in metals, it is rich with life. The communities that grow around hydrothermal vents depend on the chemical energy…...

2+ week, 17+ hour ago  (1193+ words) Across the central Congo Basin lies a bastion of carbon that scientists are just beginning to understand. First mapped only about a decade ago, the Cuvette Centrale peatlands are the size of England and hold some 30 billion metric tons of…...

8+ mon, 1+ day ago  (646+ words) As ocean temperatures set new heat records, coral reef scientists are on a mission to identify which species and reefs can tolerate heat stress the best. But how and why do some corals cope with heat extremes better than others?...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago  (1227+ words) Researchers at the California Academy of Sciences kept busy throughout 2025. Along with collaborators from across the globe, they described 72 new-to-science species from six continents " creatures living in unexplored ocean depths, in plain sight on the Gal'pagos Islands, and in a…...