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The bushmeat trade and traditional medicine could push tigers, chimpanzees, pangolins and hundreds of other species toward extinction

The quest for Bigfoot and other “hidden species” can actually aid real-world species.

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

Researchers forecast that a decline in availability of nutritious sardines will shrink the population of Darwin’s famous Nazca boobies.

Since it first turned up in 2007, white-nose syndrome has killed millions of bats — and it’s not done yet.

A difficult hurricane season unearths issues ranging from cancer hotspots to deadly bacteria.

Highly trained military dolphins have been dispatched to round up the last 30 vaquita porpoises and (hopefully) save the species from extinction.

They may not be the most charismatic group of species, but we can learn a lot from the lowly snail.

Fires cost South Africa more than $750 million in damages in 2015.

Research into the frog-killing chytrid fungus earns a Golden Goose Award, recognizing the value of federally funded science.