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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.

October brings us new books about sea-level rise, wolves and feeding the resistance.

Oil surveys in the Atlantic Ocean could harm marine life without benefiting the US economy.

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

Populations of the once-common bonnet macaque have fallen 65 percent.