Environmental News Network

Ho, Ho, Swat: Festive Flies Drive Australians Crazy
Australians would be smart to keep their mouths shut and clothes on this holiday season. Christmas comes at the height of summer Down Under and summer brings flies -- billions of them. >> Read the Full Article
Kenya Cattle Rustlers Trade Guns for Running Shoes
Three years ago, Mark Loktare was a cattle rustler who raided villages in Kenya's northern Rift Valley. Now, the 21-year-old has traded in his gun for running shoes. >> Read the Full Article
Defiant British Foxhunters Take to the Field
British hunters galloped through fields and forests on the year's biggest hunting day on Monday in a show of defiance at a newly introduced ban on the age-old custom of killing foxes with packs of dogs. >> Read the Full Article
Scientists Target Tree-Killing Beetle
The emerald ash borer, an Asian beetle that has been 100 percent fatal to North American ash trees since its arrival about 10 years ago, likely made its way here in a shipping pallet. >> Read the Full Article
Alaska Researchers Study Reindeer Biology
Milan Shipka is studying the reproductive biology of reindeer throughout their 215-day gestation, with the goal of improving management of the animals as livestock. >> Read the Full Article
Japan Resumes Whaling after Escape Bid
A Japanese whaling fleet has started whaling again after spending more than 40 hours trying to escape Greenpeace protesters in remote icy waters near Antarctica. >> Read the Full Article
Outlook Grim for Toga, the Stolen UK Penguin
Police said on Thursday they feared the worst for a baby penguin whose plight has prompted headlines around the world after he was stolen from a British zoo five days ago. >> Read the Full Article
Rare Frigate Bird Flies Thousands of Miles across Asia in Search of Food
A Christmas Island frigate bird named Lydia recently made a nonstop journey of just over 26 days and covering nearly 2,500 miles in search of food for her baby. >> Read the Full Article
Study is First on Menopause in Gorillas
Jenny, Shamba, Timbo, Beta and Elaine are zoo gorillas, but they have something in common with millions of women: They have undergone menopause. >> Read the Full Article
EU States Face Legal Action over Whales, Dolphins
EU member states must do more to protect their dolphins, whales and porpoises from dangers like pollution and illegal fishing or face legal action. >> Read the Full Article