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Explore the impact of bird flu on various animal species and the potential risks associated with cross-species transmission and viral mutations.

Cicada chaos is flourishing and flying in the American Midwest

What stands out during a cicada invasion is the sound

More than half of endangered animal and plant species in France are not adequately protected, according to a new report by a French environmental research body.

Birth control is being trialled as a humane way to limit growing numbers of grey squirrels, pigeons and wild boar

Australia contains some of the world’s most biologically diverse and carbon-dense native forests. Eucalypts in wet temperate forests are the tallest flowering plants in the world and home to an array of unique tree-dwelling marsupials, rare birds, insects, mosses, fungi and lichen, many of which have not even been catalogued…

Pacific coast gray whales have shrunk in length an astonishing 13 percent since 2000, adding to evidence that climate change and other human activities are making marine mammals smaller, a study says.

Freshwater ecosystems are the lifeblood of the natural world, yet they are facing a silent crisis. A 2022 report by the World Wildlife Fund revealed a staggering 83% decline in global freshwater vertebrate populations since 1970, a rate far exceeding that of any other habitat.

Scientists say a large number of whales is visiting the waters off New England, and the group includes an unusually high number of an endangered species

An international team of scientists said Thursday that polar bears faced local extinction in Canada's Hudson Bay by mid-century if global warming exceeds limits set under the Paris climate accords.

Conservationists urge Tanya Plibersek to call in Daly River pastoral clearing application for assessment under commonwealth nature laws