Experts warn that the shutdown has furloughed or hobbled personnel responsible for diagnosing and detecting wildlife diseases.

Tensions are high as wolves begin to wander the country for the first time in 200 years. Now some scientists have a possible solution.

In her new book Poached, journalist Rachel Love Nuwer travels into the heart of darkness that threatens elephants and many other species with extinction.

YouTube is inspiring viewers across the globe to protect Hawaii’s Laysan albatross — but will that be enough in the face of climate change?

Chemicals collect in microplastics, which then get eaten by fish, birds and seals — and by humans.

Archivists are working to save decades of film and other scientific information that could hold clues to protecting species and habitats today.

It also revealed to me the devastating impact humans are having on the world around us.

Some people think beach cleanup efforts don’t accomplish much. They’re missing part of the picture.

Beach cleanup efforts in Thailand illustrate the global problem of plastic pollution.

Southern Resident killer whales have a shortage of food and an overdose of deadly pollutants.