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New Global Report Warns Nearly 40% of Plants at Risk of Extinction

A new report on plants and fungi features images of the Pitcairn Island's yellow fatu (Abutilon pitcairnense), left, and the Cayman sage (Salvia caymanensis), right. (Photos: RBG Kew)

Attenborough's Online Climate Warning Shatters Guinness Record for Instagram Following

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

David Attenborough.

"As we all know, the world is in trouble," the 94-year-old conservationist says.

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In Secretly-Recorded 'Pebble Tapes,' Mining Execs Reveal True Scope of 200-Year Project Planned for One of Earth's 'Most Pristine Ecosystems'

Julia Conley, staff writer

" The Pebble Tapes reveal what we suspected," said the Audubon Society of...

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'Ecological Disaster on Massive Scale': Hundreds of Thousands of Dead Migratory Birds in Southwest Linked to Wildfires, Climate Crisis

Julia Conley, staff writer

"The fact that we're finding hundreds of these birds dying, just kind of...

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A U.N. report released Tuesday details the world's biodiversity crisis and a path to address it. (Photo: jotily/Getty Images)

UN Biodiversity Report Urges 8 Transitions Needed to Restore Essential Ecosystems Impacted by Humanity

A gray wolf pup emerges from a den. (Photo: Hilary Cooley/USFWS)

'Reckless, Violent, Massacre' of 570 Wolves and Wolf Pups in Idaho Bolsters Alarm Over Trump Attack on Wildlife

cover image of WWF's Living Planet Report 2020

'Nature Is Unraveling': Report Reveals 'Alarming' 68% Plummet in Wildlife Populations Worldwide Since 1970

A member of the Porcupine caribou herd, which conservation and native groups say would be horribly impacted if fossil fuel exploration and extraction takes place in ANWR's Coastal Plain.

With 'Irreparable Damage' Looming, 15 State AGs File Suit to Block Trump From Fossil Fuel Assault on Arctic Refuge

This scene from the new documentary film Invisible Hand was recorded at Standing Rock, North Dakota. (Photo: Invisible Hand/Flickr)

Earth Defenders Warn Against Democrats Undermining 'Rights of Nature' Movement With Watered-Down Approach

Members of a new climate movement, Ocean Rebellion, protest in the United Kingdom's Falmouth Harbor by projecting slogans on the bow of the cruise ship named The World.

Extinction Rebellion Activists Launch Ocean-Focused Offshoot With Direct Actions Targeting Luxury Cruise Liner

Greenpeace flew over Amazonas and Rondônia on August 16, 2020 states to verify the effectiveness of a fire ban imposed by the Brazilian government last month. (Photo: Christian Braga/Greenpeace)

As Fires Surge in Brazilian Amazon, Bolsonaro Strategy to Battle Deforestation Blasted as 'PR Stunt'

Sand hill Cranes, Grus canadensis, at roosting pond at dusk Bosque del Apache, New Mexico. (Photo: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

'Major Victory': Court Tosses Out Trump Interior's Gutting of Century-Old Protections for Migratory Birds

A file photo shows the FSO Safer supertanker permanently anchored off Yemen's Red Sea coast, west of Hodeida.

'Massive Floating Time Bomb': Warnings of Ecological, Humanitarian Disaster as Tanker Risks Dumping Four Times More Oil Than Exxon Valdez

Watchdog Accuses Trump's NOAA of 'Choosing Extinction' for Critically Threatened Right Whales by Hiding Scientific Evidence

All 17 species of Red Colobus, including Temminck's Red Colobus (Piliocolobus basius temminckii) are threatened, making this Africa's most threatened genus of monkeys. Hunting for bushmeat—much of it illegal—and habitat loss continue to pose the most urgent threats to primates across the continent. (Photo: Mic Mayhew/IUCN)

Species Extinction List Signals 'Urgent Action Needed to Save Life on Earth'

Second growth redwood trees are seen in a grove at Joaquin Miller Park in Oakland, California, on April 29, 2020. Save the Redwoods League is now focusing on preserving and restoring forests that have been clearcut in the past 100 or so years, after studies showed these forests sequester more carbon, faster than any other forest in the world. (Photo: Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

New Report Finds Economic Benefits of Protecting 30% of Planet's Land and Ocean Outweigh the Costs 5-to-1

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Greenpeace

Trump and Bolsonaro "Meltdown" During UN Biodiversity Summit...

Women's Earth & Climate Action Network

PRB Banks Responsible for Over US$1.25 Trillion in Climate-Destructive Financing Since Paris Agreement

Center for Biological Diversity

Trump Administration Further Weakens Habitat Protection for Endangered Species

Center for Biological Diversity

Lawsuit Launched Challenging EPA Decision to Dismiss Pesticides’ Harms to Endangered Species

Center for Biological Diversity

Lawsuit Seeks to Restore Protection for Wolves, Grizzly Bears on Alaska’s National Preserves

Global Justice Ecology Project

Researchers’ Plan To Release Genetically Engineered American Chestnut Trees in Forests Will Set Dangerous Precedents If Approved

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Nina Isabella Moeller, Francois Delvaux

Finance for Agroecology: More Than Just a Dream?

Subhankar Banerjee

Species in Peril: Loss, Love and Protection

Kathleen Rogers, Dr. Anne Bowser

World Honey Bee Day–Another Reminder that 40% of Insect Species Now Threatened With Extinction

Dayton Martindale

The Strategic Case for Animal Liberation

Timothy A. Wise

Replacing Hunger with Malnutrition

Mari Margil

Recent Developments in Ecuador: Rights of Nature

Charles Eisenstein

The Cure of the Earth

Vandana Shiva

Poisons Mean Extinction: For Bees and Humanity

Alastair Gee, Dani Anguiano

We Created the Anthropocene, and the Anthropocene Is Biting Back

Jon Hinck