Study tests public support for bringing back species after 500-year absence, while farmers fear for sheep

The future of the world's largest rainforest looks bleak. A report for Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development concluded that the Amazon rainforest will collapse and largely become a dry, shrubby plain by 2064. Development, deforestation and the climate crisis are to blame, study author and geologist Robert Toovey Walker found.

The gray mouse took advantage of the sedentarization of the first human population, 15,000 years ago, to spread around the world., science,biology,AFP

In Uttarakhand, in the western Himalayas, a local inventor discovered an unusual use for pine needles that is reviving the local economy, and the forest floor.

The Superb Lyrebird is famous for its song and dance, but what is less known is their extraordinary role as world-class ecosystem engineers.

U.S. authorities on Friday gave wildlife managers in Washington, Oregon and Idaho permission to start killing hundreds of sea lions in the Columbia River basin in hopes of helping struggling salmon and steelhead trout.

A new nature network wants to rewild 300,000 acres of land in the UK, in a bid to boost biodiversity and tackle climate change

In a new study, published in the journal Nature, an international team of scientists provide the first conclusive evidence directly linking deep Earth’s water cycle with magmatic productivity and earthquake activity.

How the loss of the Amazon goes beyond deforestation - and what the nine countries that share this natural resource are doing to protect it.

A team of environmental researchers at the Australian Rivers Institute–Coast & Estuaries, School of Environment and Science, Griffith University, is suggesting in a Letters piece in the journal Science that the COVID-19 pandemic could represent a new opportunity for a more diverse future—they suggest that with proper planning, we could use what has been learned from the global lockdown to improve global biodiversity.

A look at what would happen if humans disappeared from Earth. How would ecology adapt and change to cope with the lack of human beings, and what will the earth look like into a future without humans.

In what is likely the first study to look at how dietary preferences evolved across the animal kingdom, UA researchers looked at more than a million species, going back 800 million years. The team reports several unexpected discoveries, including that the first animal likely was a carnivore and that humans, along with other omnivores, belong to a rare breed.

Quaint cobblestone towns and green pastures dot the Pyrenees Mountains, at the gates of Catalonia’s Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park. Hike a few miles into the park, though, and the Spanish landscape of trickling rivers and montane meadows looks relatively untouched by people. Visit almost any national park, and it’s a similar story, with tourist towns, farms, and other development lapping at the edges of conserved lands. But just how much does the landscape change at these fringes over time compared with the protected areas?

Hearing people talk can terrify even top predators such as mountain lions, with consequences that ripple through entire ecosystems.

It’s increasingly clear that our situation is worse than we’ve been told, perhaps far, far worse. By Kollibri terre Sonnenblume.

Criticising agreement, former president says Pacific archipelago is 'not for gringo use.' By Tom Embury-Dennis.

As we grind up against the absolute limits of humanity’s use and misuse of our environment, it’s tempting to look to Silent Spring and ask why it had such a profound impact. By Meehan Crist.

Until quite recently in human history, and an eyeblink in the history of Earth’s ecologies, wild horses lived across much of the planet. By Brandon Keim.

Amazon has been embroiled in a 7-year dispute with Brazil and Peru over the domain name. By Matt Binder.

The Amazon is at risk from mining in French Guiana and it is the French Foreign Legion's job to protect it.