Cigarette butts account for roughly 12% of the litter found in rivers, lakes and beaches surveyed for a recent global review.

On the Northern California coast, where the tall trees meet the sea, ancestors of the Coast Yuki people lie buried in an old ...

Plump, fuzzy and venomous, with wide eyes, a button nose and sharp teeth, northern pygmy slow lorises were thought to reside ...

The Brazilian government has created four new sustainable development reserves in the Amazon as part of an effort to mitigate ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In 1983, the last wild northern white rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni) living in Uganda was killed for its horn. But now rhinos are back in the ...

President Claudia Sheinbaum this month presented a draft fiscal budget for 2027, outlining the national government’s plans ...

After a summer spent packing away sockeye salmon, Alaska’s heftiest brown bears are ready to throw their weight around. Online voting began Tuesday for Fat Bear Week, the annual contest that pits the ...

For award-winning Italian photographer Federico Borella, capturing Sri Lanka’s human-elephant conflict on camera is more than ...

In the high Andes of Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina, you can still find the vicuña, a shy, elusive camelid, revered by ...

Former United Nations climate chief Christiana Figueres has been named the recipient of the inaugural Jane Goodall Earth Medal, which honors those who “unite science, courage and responsibility.” ...