For all of human history, our species have used both natural and synthetic dyes—but have we taken our obsession with color to an extreme?

Video shows captive Madagascan primates using elongated finger to pick nose and eat the mucus

Last week, there was mass confusion as to why Alaskan snow crabs have disappeared.

Report for Law Society says framework is essential for future interactions with the environment and biotechnology

The history of the banana is more complicated than you might have ever imagined (if you ever thought about it at all).

The exotic fungus was first discovered about 15 years ago in an upstate New York cave and has since spread across more than half the bat’s range.

Exclusion zone set up around Noah’s Ark sanctuary in US amid outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 strain

Kemp's ridley sea turtles have hatched in Louisiana's wilds, officials say, in a victory for barrier island restoration. The tiny turtle is also believed to be the world's most endangered.

From Antarctica to Tibet, long-lasting chemicals in rainwater are well above US safety guidelines.

They’ve been absent in the UK wild for thousands of years, but now a special project has welcomed these “woolly bulldozers” home.

The number of tigers in the wild has gone up dramatically since 2015 — largely because of improvements in monitoring them, but the species remains endangered.

Given the option of saving the iconic monarch butterfly or a giant slug, what would you choose? As more species are pushed to the brink of extinction, humans will have to decide the winners and losers of the animal kingdom.

Scientists alarmed at claims of releasing 10m frogs and 100m ladybugs to rack up viewers as relocating species can have ‘extremely negative consequences’

Over four decades after they became extinct locally, rhinos are roaming again the wilds of Mozambique, which is bringing the endangered species from South Africa in efforts to breathe new life into its parks and boost local tourism.

In the over three decades that Bob Popp has been traipsing through the Vermont woods as the state’s botanist, he had never encountered a small whorled pogonia within the state. He had seen the yellowish-green orchid on excursions to other states, but never in Vermont, where the flower had been considered locally extinct since 1902. Despite its vast range within the U.S. from Missouri and Michigan up through Maine, the species has been considered threatened by federal wildlife officials since 1982.

Some could be lost forever, while others could live in areas difficult to reach

Billions of birds are disappearing because of humanity’s impact on Earth, global review finds

At least one in five reptile species are threatened with extinction, including more than half of turtles and crocodiles, according to the first major global assessment of the world's so-called cold-blooded creatures.

Meet the young couple living in one of the most-remote areas in Australia, all in the name of helping to bring our endangered animals back from the brink of extinction.

The concept of ecosystem services allows researchers to quantify the benefits that nature contributes to people into monetary units. A study publishing April 5th in the open-access journal PLOS Sustainability and Transformation by Jeannine Cavender-Bares and Stephen Polasky at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul, United States, and colleagues suggests that trees provide greater economic value when used to regulate climate and air quality than the value they produce as wood products, food crops, and Christmas trees.