International

Asking why elephants travel to specific areas can help us to better understand and reduce human-elephant conflict.

A thriving population of servals at petrochemical plant suggests that even heavily industrialized sites can still be good places for conservation.

New genetic tests may reveal the secret to saving the critically endangered Siamese crocodile from extinction.

The Bramble Cay melomys, a tiny island rodent, was wiped out by sea-level rise, according to the government of Australia.

The unexpected announcement reverses a plan to move people out of critical protected habitats — and puts the nation’s amazing biodiversity at risk.

The ancestors of the newly described Heath’s tick date back to the time of the dinosaurs, but climate change and invasive species could soon wipe the tick out.

Alex Dehgan’s new book The Snow Leopard Project details successful strategies for conserving endangered wildlife — and helping people in the process.

A look at Poland’s growing ecological disaster — and its polluted past — shows how green ideals can wither on the vine.

Carcharhinus obsolerus (that’s Latin for “extinct”) swam in the waters of the western Pacific, but it hasn’t been seen in 80-plus years.

It’s going to be a rough year, but we’ll also see some progress.