A sea cucumber with two horn-like appendages sits on the mud in the deep South Atlantic Ocean. Scientists named it Loki, ...

Seven of Brazil’s nine Amazonian states are set to be governed by politicians aligned with far-right candidate Flávio ...

Protected areas are protected areas,” says Nadège Nzoyem, WWF’s regional director for the Congo Basin. For her, mining has no ...

A steady stream of chacma baboons flows down the walking path in the beautiful wooded ravine that leads up to Admiral’s Kloof ...

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The Iranian spider-tailed horned viper, a rare snake endemic to western Iran, hunts by holding its body completely still ...

Marine biologist and photojournalist Sirachai “Shin” Arunrugstichai has taken many notable photographs in Thailand, from ...

COLOMBO – Sri Lanka’s spectacled cobra (Naja naja) carries a two-million-year-old genetic mystery, and a new study finds that ...

Since an invasive seaweed called caulerpa was discovered in Aotearoa New Zealand in 2021, forming meadows that blanketed parts of the seabed, it’s taken on an almost mythical status among people who ...

When the tide pulls away from the beach in the agricultural regions in Mahera in Lungi, about 27 kilometers (17 miles) across ...

Ten kilometers east of Taipei’s high-rises and dense traffic, the city gives way to a succession of steep, forested ...