🇰🇪 Kenya
When Elephants Disappear, Dung Beetles Vanish Too, Study Finds
The loss of African elephants does more than shrink a species. It triggers a chain reaction that can wipe out
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🇦🇺 Australia 2
🌍 Ecuador 2
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🇨🇮 Côte d'Ivoire
Coffee's future may depend on forgotten wild species in West Africa
The two coffee species that fuel the world's morning routines, Arabica and Robusta, are struggling to survive
🇺🇸 United States
Soundscapes reveal what satellites miss in global conservation
A forest can look perfectly healthy from space while its animal life is already vanishing. That gap between wh
🇦🇺 Australia
Three New Planking Mantis Species Found in Australia and PNG
Three new species of praying mantis have been discovered in Australia and Papua New Guinea, and they do someth
🇧🇷 Brazil
Gold Mining in the Amazon Wipes Out Dung Beetle Populations
Gold mining in the Amazon does more than scar the landscape. It also wipes out the insects that keep the fores
🇹🇼 Taiwan
Tiny Sesame Sea Slug Found in Taiwan, First New Genus Species in 30 Years
A sea slug no bigger than a sesame seed has turned up in the waters off Taiwan, and it is the first new specie
🇮🇹 Italy
Two New ESA Scout Satellites Will Spy on Forests and Sky Waves
The European Space Agency has given the green light to two new small satellites that will peer through forest
🇮🇩 Indonesia
A New Wasp Species Named for Attenborough on His 100th Birthday
A newly identified wasp from Indonesia now carries the name of a broadcasting legend. Scientists described the
🇧🇷 Brazil
Amazon frogs vanishing before scientists can name them
The Amazon is losing frog species faster than scientists can find them. In Brazil, researchers estimate that d
🇿🇦 South Africa
Africa's frogs and toads are being left out of conservation plans
Africa is home to some of the world's most unique amphibians, yet conservation planners are largely ignoring t
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Scientists are pulling animal DNA straight out of thin air
A zoo in the United Kingdom has become an unlikely laboratory for a technique that sounds like science fiction
🌍 Ecuador
Climate change could erase most of South America's cloud forests
Up to 80 percent of South America's cloud forests could vanish by the end of this century. That is the stark f
🇿🇦 South Africa
Extinct flower rediscovered and thriving in South African park
A flower that scientists believed had vanished from the Earth is now growing in abundance inside a South Afric
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Bottom Trawling Catches 3,000 Fish Species, Study Reveals
A single, widespread fishing method hauls in nearly a quarter of all known marine fish species on Earth. Resea
🇿🇦 South Africa
South Africa's Great African Seaforest Is Actually Growing
While kelp forests vanish from coastlines worldwide, a massive underwater ecosystem off South Africa is quietl
🇰🇭 Cambodia
A Translucent Microsnail Emerges from Cambodia's Limestone
A creature so small and transparent it could vanish on a fingertip has been formally identified as a new speci
🇧🇷 Brazil
Brazil's Flor-de-Carajás, a Unique Red Flower, Vanishes as Mining Grows
A brilliant red flower that grows nowhere else on Earth is being erased from its only home in Brazil's Amazon.
