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The warming planet is causing steep declines among some of the world’s 26,000 wild polar bears, but it is not universal and the picture is complicated, say experts

The genetic mapping of almost the entire kākāpō population has shed new light on specific traits that will help conservation biologists in their efforts to save the critically endangered flightless night parrots.

English ivy might look handsome with its heavy, woody vines and dark-green, waxy leaves

Heat is just one of many stressors for the world’s beleaguered Amazon

Thousands of emperor penguin chicks are thought to have died across Antarctica last year as a result of a “catastrophic breeding failure”.

Primatologists have suggested rerouting a 1.65-km-long railway track that has divided an eastern Assam Hollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary dedicated to the western hoolock gibbon into two unequal parts. “The sanctuary has become a ‘forest island’, having lost connectivity with surrounding forest patches. Since gibbons are exclusively arboreal animals inhabiting the forest’s upper…

In 1993, frogs were found dying en masse in Far North Queensland. When scientists analysed their bodies, they found something weird. Their small bodies were covered in spores.

Their point of origin was in arid western Gondwana, an ancient supercontinent. 

Imagine it’s winter, and you’re standing on a frozen lake or pond, when suddenly below your feet you notice hundreds of turtles. What are they doing down there below the ice?