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Imagine … eco-tourists enjoying views of undisturbed whales and dolphins, watching them doing what comes naturally.

Marine mammals typically sleep in 10-minute bursts during deep, 30-minute dives to avoid predators, scientists believe

A study has delivered more bad news for a globally important green turtle nesting site off Queensland, with climate change predicted to flood all nests by 2050.

James Tuttle has been left perplexed by the running battle he's having with the council over his £24 lights

Sea-level rises caused by global warming could flood sea turtle nesting beaches in Australia, several Caribbean islands, Costa Rica and the US.

The critically endangered bulloak jewel butterfly is only found in pockets of Queensland's Southern Downs. Conservationists who have been working to protect it are delighted by an increase in the population.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — She called it cute, the microscopic single-celled organism on her microscope slide. She said she liked its little hairs, and the way it swam beneath her lens. Looking through her microscope, Mya Breitbart found one of the ciliates — this type of single-celled creature — and…

Scientists have found the source of a mysterious outbreak that killed sea urchins across the Caribbean last year

As recently as December 2022, 196 countries signed an agreement promising to “live in harmony with nature” by 2050 and to “halt and reverse biodiversity loss” by 2030.

"It was cutting right into her neck so she probably couldn’t feed. She was quite thin"

Rod Saunders and wife Rachel, who were world-renowned botanists, were found dead while on a trip to a remote region of South Africa in 2018.