Scientists have found a new form of pollution, one where plastic and pieces of coral become irreversibly intertwined.

BANGKOK — Over the course of 2025, the Mekong countries of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam lost a combined 746,168 hectares (1.8 million acres) of tree cover, an area roughly equivalent ...

The man in the Zambian prison recalled how he ended up there. He’d been approached by someone who had an uncle in the capital, Lusaka, who was willing to buy ivory and pangolin scales. He gave the man...

Mosquito-borne disease has infected hundreds statewide and killed one woman in Tampa.

Energy shock drives low-carbon policies, but grid and financing challenges remain

View and follow events from Panda House on Luma. Join WWF and partners in turning climate commitments into conservation outcomes.

Plastic-free, ethical leather alternatives that perform like the real thing are hard to make. Researchers may have cracked the code to produce such materials on large scale.

Analysis of a huge area in the Amazon rainforest suggests that protecting remaining forests from disturbances is the best way to safeguard biodiversity and carbon stocks.The study, published in the jo...

A federal judge in Rhode Island on Friday ruled that President Donald Trump's administration unlawfully canceled a $7 billion grant program aimed at expanding solar ​energy in low-income communities.

The numbers behind the melting ice are both mind-bogglingly huge and deceptively small.

Last fall, scientists reported the first known recordings of greater noctule bats hunting and feasting on songbirds during night flights. But a 17th-century artwork by Jan Brueghel the Elder seems to ...

A study published in Nature Cities suggests that forests placed strategically outside urban cores can lower temperatures across much of a city.

Solar and batteries matter, but they’re not the only reasons for the steep decline in gas-fired electricity.

How locals and conservationists are helping the honu resurgence

BANGKOK, Thailand — In the narrow alleys of Bangkok’s Chatuchak Market, the world’s wildlife is for sale. Ensnared in jungles, fished out of rivers and plucked from wetlands across the globe, hundreds...

We now know who is responsible for them, but why they’re doing it is still up for debate

UK registrations of battery electric vehicles rose ‌about 30% in August from a year earlier, making it the single biggest fuel type in the market last month, New AutoMotive data showed on Thursday.

Water scarcity and climate change is driving communities to restore traditional water structures built centuries ago, bringing them back into use in the 21st Century.

Officials in British Columbia say the floating island drifted towards the shoreline of a local lake. But its origins remain a mystery.

Met Office figures show that the previous record, set in 2025, has been broken after an unprecedented summer of persistent heat.

Despite public pushback, the Trump administration has announced plans to rescind the 2021 Roadless Rule, which protects 9 million acres of the Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska.The federal…

A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.

Experts are analyzing decades of images from Landsat satellites for clues about how the iconic birds have responded to sea ice disruptions in the past.

The ​death toll ‌from a ​flash ​flood that ⁠occurred ​earlier ​this week in ​Nepal ​has reached 469, ‌Nepal ⁠police said ​on ​Friday.

The country singer was an advocate for vaccines, public health, literacy and marginalized communities.

The scarlet monkeyflower's ability to keep pace with a punishing drought signals some plants can adapt quickly to climate extremes.

Dolphins Eavesdrop on Their Prey—and Each Other: They strategically choose when to whistle or click

The sorrows and redemptions of visitors who mailed their ‘souvenirs’ back to Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park