Wildlife Conservation
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What to expect from the world’s sixth mass extinction
What does biodiversity loss mean for us and the environment? Alistair Walsh Deutsche Welle About 65 million years after the last…
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Time to give the ocean its own legal voice
While we debate how Aotearoa New Zealand can move towards a significantly decarbonised world, and how in doing so we…
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Book Review: Country is an urgent call to learn from Indigenous knowledges to care for the land
This line sits towards the concluding paragraphs of Country: Future Fire, Future Farming, by Yuin, Bunurong and Tasmanian activist and…
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Reeling in a Deal to Save the Ocean
The World Trade Organization’s upcoming 12th Ministerial Conference in Geneva will test the credibility of that pledge. Project Syndicate AUCKLAND/MADRID/VICTORIA/ANSE…
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‘Foreign fishing vessels barred from fishing in exclusive economic zone’
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Maritime Affairs Ali Haider Zaidi on Friday informed the National Assembly that foreign fishing vessels are not…
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Pope Francis urges world leaders at COP26 to ‘heed the cry of the Earth’ as the climate summit kicks off
The COP26 summit formally opened in Glasgow on Sunday, kicking off two weeks of intense diplomatic negotiations by almost 200…
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The world is on track for a ‘catastrophic’ 2.7C temperature rise this century, UN report warns
Countries’ latest climate plans will deliver just a tiny percentage of the emissions cuts needed to limit global heating to…
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Elephants are rapidly evolving without tusks to escape ivory poachers, study finds
A new study, published today in Science, provides powerful evidence that human activities are driving rapid evolution of animals. Anna Salleh ABC…
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California Pipeline Pulled Like ‘Bowstring,’ Coast Guard Says, As Oil Cleanup Continues
Cleanup crews and environmental authorities are racing to contain the devastation linked to a large oil spill off the Southern California…
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David Lindenmayer’s new book is a reminder the world is still beautiful
But the world is still a beautiful place. And for Canberra scientist David Lindenmayer, it’s the ash forests of Victoria…
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How to help one of Australia’s rarest birds save itself from extinction
Once common across its native home in Tasmania’s white gum forests, the pardalote has become endangered through habitat loss. Mike…
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Ireland seeks peace for Wally the Walrus
The Irish government wants the public to leave Wally the Walrus alone. Shawn Pogatchnik Politico The 800-kilogram walrus has become…
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Australia saves Barrier Reef World Heritage status, cops climate deadline
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) controls World Heritage listings and on Friday night a committee of…
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Record number of manatees die in Florida as food source dries up
More manatees have died already this year than in any other year in Florida’s recorded history, primarily from starvation due…
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‘Heat dome’ probably killed 1bn marine animals on Canada coast, experts say
‘The shore doesn’t usually crunch when you walk’ Leyland Cecco The Guardian More than 1 billion marine animals along Canada’s…
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We discovered a new fossil species of horseshoe crab (and named it after David Attenborough)
But the fossil record shows that hundreds of millions of years ago they came in a huge range of shapes…
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