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Benito the giraffe leaves extreme weather at Mexico's border and heads to a more congenial home
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — After a campaign by environmentalists, Benito the giraffe…
Latest EPA assessment shows almost no improvement in river and stream nitrogen pollution
ST. LOUIS — The nation’s rivers and streams remain stubbornly polluted with…
As Mexico marks conservation day, advocates say it takes too long to list vulnerable species
MEXICO CITY — Residents of Mexico‘s Caribbean reef island of Banco Chinchorro…
Pennsylvania court permanently blocks effort to make power plants pay for greenhouse gas emissions
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania cannot enforce a regulation to make power plant…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is traveling to China to talk climate change
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom will try to reinforce his…
Sumatran rhino birth offers glimmer of hope for species almost hunted to extinction | CNN
CNN — A critically endangered Sumatran rhinoceros calf has been born in…
In New York City, scuba divers’ passion for the sport becomes a mission to collect undersea litter
NEW YORK — On a recent Sunday afternoon, the divers arrived on…
Endangered red wolf can’t make it in the wild without ‘significant’ help, study says
WAKE FOREST, N.C. — The endangered red wolf can survive in the…
Massachusetts to ban purchase of single-use plastic bottles by state agencies
Gov. Maura Healey signed an executive order Thursday that she says will…
Sponsor an ocean? Tiny island nation of Niue has a novel plan to protect its slice of the Pacific
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The tiny Pacific island nation of Niue has…
Farms with natural landscape features provide sanctuary for some Costa Rica rainforest birds
Small farms with natural landscape features such as shade trees, hedgerows and…
Logging is growing in a Nigerian forest home to endangered elephants. Rangers blame lax enforcement
OMO FOREST RESERVE, Nigeria — Roaring chainsaws sent trees crashing to the…
Environmental groups recruit people of color into overwhelmingly white conservation world
BARABOO, Wis. — Arianna Barajas never thought of herself as the outdoors…
California’s big bloom aids seed collectors as climate change and wildfires threaten desert species
JOSHUA TREE, Calif. — Flowers that haven’t been seen in years bloomed…
A Nigerian forest and its animals are under threat. Poachers have become rangers to protect both
OMO FOREST RESERVE, Nigeria — Sunday Abiodun, carrying a sword in one…
A Nigerian forest and its animals are under threat. Poachers have become rangers to protect both
OMO FOREST RESERVE, Nigeria — Sunday Abiodun, carrying a sword in one…
Blue blood from horseshoe crabs is valuable for medicine, but a declining bird needs them for food
PORTLAND, Maine — A primordial sea animal that lives on the tidal…
Blue blood from horseshoe crabs is valuable for medicine, but a declining bird needs them for food
PORTLAND, Maine — A primordial sea animal that lives on the tidal…
GOP measures would undo protections for endangered lesser prairie chicken, northern bat
WASHINGTON — Congress has approved two measures to undo federal protections for…