Biologist Mike Ross, balanced in a canoe beneath a star-filled sky in central Zambia, slaps the water with a net attached to ...

A zoo in the U.S. state of Kansas has welcomed the birth of a healthy baby pygmy hippopotamus, raising hope for a species ...

A vital Amazonian superfood suddenly vanishes, leaving thousands of Indigenous and extractivist families reeling.

As shiny, pearl-like white plastic pellets rode wave after wave and piled up on the beaches of Thiruvananthapuram in India’s ...

Few conservationists have shaped the public conversation around wildlife protection quite like Peter Knights. Best known for ...

Conservation is often framed as a scientific or technical challenge — a matter of policies, protected areas and enforcement.

Colombia’s Constitutional Court has issued a historic ruling, finding in favor of Indigenous leaders who say their ...

Young birder Lahiru Walpita begins most of his days at dawn by scanning the skies for seabirds along the coastline in ...

Lions have been dubbed the king of the jungle, but one could argue the real royalty are the trees, the massive woody beasts ...

Dozens of rescuers searched the banks of a mountain river Wednesday looking for people missing after monsoon floods swept ...

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network, where Elizabeth Claire Alberts is a fellow. On ...

After Hurricane Iris decimated the coral reef at Laughing Bird Caye National Park in 2001, many wrote off the UNESCO World ...