Important implications for food production and environmental monitoring.

The first comprehensive list of the threats to Australia’s most endangered plants and animals reveals blunt news about the future for some of the country’s favourite species.

Although there are some important differences, rhesus macaques are considered a useful animal model for human pregnancy.

Hundreds of species have yet to be described in the ecosystems that support Alaska’s valuable commercial fisheries.

Warming oceans have driven the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale population from its traditional and protected habitat, exposing the animals to more lethal ship strikes, disastrous commercial fishing entanglements and greatly reduced calving rates.

City dwellers seldom experience the near-reverence of watching deer walk through their yards, both for a lack of deer and, often, a lack of a yard. In cities, not everyone has the same experiences with nature.

The Sumatran rhino, the smallest, shaggiest, and most endangered of the world’s five rhinoceros species, is found only on the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Borneo. 

Safe passages for species adapting to climate change aren’t always being protected, a new study by the University of Liverpool warns.

The world’s oceans are becoming increasingly stressful places for marine life, and experts are working to understand what this means for the future. 

NOAA and university scientists deploy underwater listening devices in the Gulf of Mexico to study marine mammals, soundscapes, and noise impacts.