Scientists from the World Wildlife Fund, who are recording the ice cover over the North Pole, said less ice is predicted in the Arctic this year than in any other.
Experts say this not only means a loss of habitat to species like polar bears and loss of livelihood for indigenous peoples but could speed up […]
Conservationists issued an appeal today to protect lions surrounding Kenya’s Amboseli National Park, saying the big cats are declining at an alarming pace and may even be extinct in the region within a few years.
At least one group estimates that fewer than a hundred lions remain in the Amboseli area, down drastically from the 1980s.
The […]
After delaying a decision for several weeks, the U.S. government today listed the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), creating new protections for the bears in their Alaskan habitat.
But officials emphasized that the decision will not be used to determine U.S. climate policy.
At today’s announcement, Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne […]
Wild Asian vultures could become extinct in 10 years unless officials stop the use of a livestock drug that has caused the birds to decline faster than the dodo, British and Indian scientists said on Wednesday.
A new study shows the population of oriental white-backed vultures has plunged 99.9 percent since 1992 while the numbers of […]
The planet’s last river-dwelling finless porpoises are dying from exposure to insecticides and mercury in China, a new study says.
The mammals had already been declining as their natural habitat in and around the Yangtze River deteriorated.
In the new research, scientists also found high concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and other pollutants in the organs of […]
The Borneo pygmy elephant may not be native to Borneo after all. Instead, the population could be the last survivors of the Javan elephant race — accidentally saved from extinction by the Sultan of Sulu centuries ago, a new publication suggests.
The origins of the pygmy elephants, found in a range extending from the north-east of […]
Australia’s unique tree-dwelling koalas may become a victim of climate change, new research reported on Saturday shows.
Australian scientists say that eucalyptus leaves, the staple diet of koalas and other animals, could become inedible because of climate change.
“What we’re seeing, essentially, is that the staple diet of these animals is being turned to leather,” Australian National […]
The world’s tiger population may have halved in the past quarter of a century and at least one of the remaining five sub-species is in danger of becoming extinct, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) experts said on Tuesday.
Chinese demand for tiger parts used in traditional medicines and habitat destruction are the two greatest perils facing the […]
When researchers at the Rocky Mountain Biological Lab in Crested Butte, Colorado, started documenting marmot hibernation patterns in the 1970s, the animals rarely awoke before the third week of May.But these days, the scientists say, marmots regularly end their winter naps a month beforehand—by the third week of April.
These abbreviated hibernations are part of a […]
