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Long-spined sea urchins — the "single biggest threat" for reefs in eastern Tasmania — are arriving via an ocean current supercharged by climate change. So what can be done about it?

As the economist Herman Daly pithily said, the economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment – not the reverse. Nature makes our lives possible through what scientists call ecosystem services. Think healthy food, clean water, feed for livestock, building materials, medicine, flood and storm control, recreation, and attractions…

Letter: Dodo historian Anthony Cheke responds to scientists’ plans to bring the creature back to life, and wonders whether it is possible to create a safe habitat in which the birds could thrive

Large great white sharks are gathering off the South Carolina coast — for reasons scientists don’t quite understand.

Nine otters and foxes have been confirmed with avian flu since 2021, with the first case a fox in Durham

“Wild animals have replaced the role of landlords, who were previously the main source of conflict for farmers,” says Thomas K D, a 69-year-old cashew farmer whose crop yield has shrunk to two quintals from the seven before. Sitting at his cashew plantation with banners protesting against official apathy, he…

A whale that washed ashore in Hawaii over the weekend likely died in part because it ate large volumes of fishing traps, fishing nets, plastic bags and other marine debris

Retailer and green groups warn of ‘high environmental cost’ of fish aggregating devices to tuna stocks and other endangered marine life

Beautiful white-sided dolphins and a 56-year-old lone orca can be seen swimming in circles, stuck in tiny pools at Miami Seaquarium in Florida, just metres from the ocean

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The final tallies are in, and it’s been another good year for monarch butterflies in California.

The disease has been found in nine foxes and otters