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Australia’s largest east coast gas producer has sought federal environmental approval to drill up to 7,700 new gas wells in Queensland, prompting concern from environmentalists due to the project’s sheer size and its proximity to two national parks.

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Britain’s Prince William has underscored the importance of investing in nature to tackle climate change and protect our planet, becoming the latest high profile public figure to weigh in on the subject.

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Scientists at the University of Oldenburg's Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM) have scored a success: in the aquariums at the ICBM's Wilhelmshaven site they were able to induce sexual reproduction in stony corals for the first time ever in Germany.

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North Pacific loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) hatch on the shores of Japan and spend much of their time in the open Pacific, but sometimes mysteriously crop up in Mexico, 9,000 miles (14,500 kilometers) away from their original nesting ground.

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Conflicts between visitor and resident use in Hawai‘i State Parks were a main highlight of conversation from the first round of discussions relating to the Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan, currently being updated by the state Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of St

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Despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the existential threat of climate change for small island developing states (SIDS) remains.

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Japan will release more than one million tonnes of radioactive water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean.

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Most governments’ astronomical borrowing during the current pandemic pays scant attention to the effects that climate change could have on their ability to repay the debt.

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The year 2020 was an unusual one for Cook Islands Whale Research. To begin with, the Covid-19 pandemic.

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City parks and military officials are closing Bellows Field Beach Park to overnight camping several months this summer due to the anticipated return of nesting Hawaiian green sea turtles.

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