Focus on Biodiversity
EU legislature backs a major plan to better protect nature and meet climate goals
STRASBOURG, France (AP) — The European Union’s legislature on Tuesday approved a watered-down plan to better protect nature and fight climate change in...
Early jacaranda bloom sparks debate about climate change in Mexico
By Diego Oré MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Every spring, the streets of Mexico’s capital are painted purple with the flowering of thousands of...
Conservation group expands Hawaii coral reef insurance programme
By Simon Jessop LONDON (Reuters) – Conservation group The Nature Conservancy has purchased a new, expanded insurance policy that could see up to...
Rhinos are returned to a plateau in central Kenya, decades after poachers wiped them out
LOISABA CONSERVANCY, Kenya (AP) — Conservationists in Kenya are celebrating as rhinos were returned to a grassy plateau that hasn’t seen them in...
Global warming, deforestation, fires combined could hasten Amazon demise, study finds
By Oliver Griffin BOGOTA (Reuters) – Drought and heat driven by climate change and other factors threaten to cause the collapse of South...
Colombia’s critically endangered species number more than doubles in 7 years
By Oliver Griffin BOGOTA (Reuters) – The number of critically endangered animal and plant species in Colombia has more than doubled since 2017...
For threatened polar bears, the climate change diet is a losing proposition
For polar bears, the climate change diet is a losing proposition, a new study suggests. With Arctic sea ice shrinking from climate change,...
‘Energy needs’: Study shows polar bears can’t survive on extended land-based diet
Polar bears along Hudson Bay stranded on land by a lengthening summer tried everything to feed themselves, from swimming after seal carcasses to...
One in five of world’s migratory species at risk of extinction – UN report
By David Stanway SINGAPORE (Reuters) – More than a fifth of the world’s migrating species are at risk of going extinct as a...
Nearly half of the world’s migratory species are in decline, UN report says
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly half of the world’s migratory species are in decline, according to a new United Nations report released Monday. Many...
