Slimy, snake-shaped and yellow-brown, freshwater eels swim the rivers, estuaries and the coastal waters of Asia, Oceania, Europe, Africa and North America. Despite what their name says, these fish ...

A U.S. federal agency is considering allowing companies to lease more than 45.7 million hectares (113 million acres) of waters off Alaska for seabed mining. Alaska is the latest of several places ...

Feb. 12 marks Bangladesh’s first national election poll since the 2024 mass uprising and the consequent fall of the Awami ...

Jeffrey Lendrum spent nearly four decades traveling the world in search of rare bird eggs, becoming one of the most notorious wildlife smugglers on the planet. Operating across multiple continents, he ...

U.S. President Donald Trump issued a proclamation on Feb. 6 to open a marine protected area off the northeastern U.S. to ...

Mexican officials have proposed scaling back fishing regulations meant to protect a narrow stretch of ocean home to the last ...

A strikingly handsome emerald-green moth, lost to science for nearly one-and-a-half centuries, has been rediscovered in South Africa by citizen scientists who posted photographs of it online. The moth ...

All around her, scientists had their eyes set on studying flora and fauna that lived aboveground. But Toby Kiers’s interest always lay in the oft-overlooked biodiversity that existed beneath it. It ...

The Khorthali Community Forest User Group in Dolakha, central Nepal, produced 1,189 cubic meters (42,000 cubic feet) of ...

This is the first of two stories about the potential impact of Cambodia’s planned Funan Techo Canal. Part two, about ...

When agribusiness giant Socfin found itself embroiled in allegations of human rights and environmental violations at its ...

Rio de Janeiro bans shark meat in most state schools, citing health and environmental risks as conservationists warn of ...