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As the global climate shifts, it’s important to know which species have adaptations to survive. Our research published today in PNAS found it largely depends on where they evolved.

The future of the world heritage-listed Kakadu national park now rests with the federal environment minister, after a turbulent week in which escalating tensions led to a vote of no confidence in senior management by the board and traditional owners, who said the relationship was “broken” and “ir

The Conservation Department of the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, Disaster Management and Meteorology will discuss the creation of Protected Areas with tribal landowners in parts of Makira Island of Makira Ulawa Province beginning July 9, 2020.

With no end in sight to the Covid-19 pandemic, the suspension of 100 percent fisheries observer coverage on all purse seine fishing vessels in the Pacific is set to be extended...Suspension of total fisheries observer coverage in the region was to end on July 31.

"This report unequivocally tells us that the time to finance nature—for people and for planet—is now." That's how Jamison Ervin, manager of the Global Program on Nature for Development at the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), summed up a new study commissioned by Campaign for N

...on July 9 the IUCN released its latest Red List of Threatened Species, covering the changing fates of some of the 120,000 species it monitors.

Canada has joined an international group of nearly two dozen other countries working to protect the world's oceans. The Global Ocean Alliance, founded by Great Britain last year, seeks to protect 30 per cent of the world's oceans by 2030. "Working in partnership is the only way we're go

China’s wildlife trade should be thoroughly investigated as part of efforts to uncover the origin of the coronavirus pandemic, say researchers.

Burger King is staging an intervention with its cows. The chain has rebalanced the diet of some of the cows by adding lemon grass in a bid to limit bovine contributions to climate change.

Airborne microplastics from traffic pollution may be entering the world's oceans at a similar rate to that from rivers, according to new research Tuesday warning that the particles may also speed up Arctic ice melt.