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Covid-19 is taking a "severe toll" on conservation efforts, with multiple environmental protections being rolled back, according to research.

The world is missing a once-in-a-generation chance to rebuild a sustainable post-pandemic future, the United Nations said Wednesday in an assessment showing less than 20 percent of recovery finance can be considered "green"...With renewable energy more affordable and scalable than ever,

In the immediate aftermath of the strongest cyclone to ever make landfall in the southern hemisphere, reefs across the Namena reserve and Vatu-i-Ra conservation park off Fiji were reduced to rubble. Tropical Cyclone Winston struck Fiji on 20 February 2016, causing devastation

Scientists have identified a widespread coral bleaching event on shallow, inshore reefs that were previously considered to be less reactive to climate stress, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) said on Saturday.

They control the richest tuna waters on the planet, an area of the Pacific roughly one-and-a-half times the size of the United States. But 10 years ago, eight island states in whose waters most of the world’s canned tuna is fished were seeing almost none of the profits.

At the G7’s virtual summit last month, leaders of the world’s wealthiest nations sought to look beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, vowing to defeat the virus and “build back better” by investing in low-carbon economic development. It is smart policy that should be pursued.

The Center for Biological Diversity is suing the federal government amid the nonprofit group’s efforts to protect Hawaii’s iiwi, one of 17 forest bird species native to the islands that’s facing extinction. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in U.S.

The COVID-19 pandemic thrust into the global spotlight how infectious diseases originating in animals can have devastating effects on humans, something researchers have long known.

In light of the United Nations (UN) declaration that 2021-2030 is the U.N. Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, a group of scientists is voicing concerns about restoration in heavily fragmented landscapes under a hotter and drier future scenario.

Forest ecosystems are the place we find most of the Earth’s terrestrial biodiversity, including many unique species.