20+ hour, 51+ min ago  (1396+ words) The baboons forage on a range of flowers, seeds and berries in the warmer months; in winter, when the fynbos is dormant, the baboons eat kikuyu grass from lawns in the village. They also eat limpets in the intertidal zone,…...

9+ hour, 18+ min ago  (231+ words) Williams electric blue day gecko is a small Tanzanian reptile whose recovery shows what focused conservation can do, reports Mongabay contributor, Manuel Fonseca. Once heavily collected for Europe's pet trade, the species is now rebounding because pressure from trade has…...

16+ hour, 47+ min ago  (572+ words) In 2018, night patrol teams on Boa Vista, the third-largest island in the Cabo Verde archipelago, started noticing a change along the beaches: The loggerhead turtles were arriving in significantly larger numbers than usual. In previous years, each team, comprised of…...

18+ hour, 3+ min ago  (674+ words) LIM'N DE CHAGRES, Panama " In Panama's Rio Indio Basin, a $1. 5 billion reservoir project aims to meet water demand for the next 50 years. But the project would displace dozens of farming communities, sparking widespread opposition to the reservoir's construction. "We will…...

20+ hour ago  (1683+ words) Tariq Mahmood was alarmed when he found 19 sacks tucked away in a railway tunnel in the Chakwal district of northern Pakistan. Their contents were extremely disturbing: 45 rotting pangolin carcasses, all devoid of their distinct, orange-and-light-brown scales. That was in 2012. "It…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (1634+ words) JAKARTA " Climate change has become a direct threat to the survival of the world's rarest great ape, according to scientists, after landslides triggered by an unusually intense storm killed an estimated 58 critically endangered Tapanuli orangutans (Pongo tapanuliensis) in Indonesia's Batang…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (402+ words) The blue-fronted lorikeet (Charmosynopsis toxopei) is a small species found only in the island of Buru. The bird, which has a lime-green plumage, an orange beak and a pointed tail, was first identified from seven museum specimens collected in the…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (406+ words) The Himalayas, often referred to as the "Water Tower of Asia, provide vital water resources for nearly 2 billion people downstream. But according to the study, in the upper high Himalayan region, where several important river basins originate, temperatures have risen…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (449+ words) Fungi are living below your feet. Roughly 110 quadrillion kilometers of living fungal threads are woven through the world's soils. Stretched end-to-end they would cover a distance nearly a billion times that from Earth to the sun. Now, scientists have mapped…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (860+ words) Equipped with an armor-plated body, elongated snout and sticky tongue the length of their body, Chinese pangolins (Manis pentadactyla) are beautifully adapted to a life spent grubbing out ant and termite nests and resting in burrows dug into the forest…...