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A Montreal-based firm, KANVA, developed a thought-provoking display for the Canada Pavilion at World Expo 2020 Dubai. Called TRACES, it’s an interactive and eye-opening look into the effects of climate change on wildlife....

Guest post by Jim Steele Published in Pacifica Tribune July 10, 2019 What’s Natural? Celebrating America’s Environmental Stewardship I resent the one-sided mis-characterization of humanity as “destroyers of our environment”...

According to new research from Temple University scientist Blair Hedges, the Caribbean island nation of Haiti is undergoing a mass extinction event, and the country is close to losing its rich biodiversity...

The full extent of damage from Hurricane Michael is still not known. But when the storm hit the Florida Panhandle, it did more than destroy property and accumulate a human death toll that is still on the rise. Part of the...

Today, at 6 p.m. local time in Moscow, the 2018 World Cup will begin with a match between host country Russia and Saudi Arabia. This year's tournament will be the first in which FIFA required that all stadiums be built and...

The Tapanuli orangutan was only discovered six months ago — and it's already under threat of extinction from human development. Only 800 Tapanuli orangutans live in the wild today — however state-run Chinese company Sinohydro...

Earth’s disappearing wildlife is no joke — the WWF says that almost half of the wild animals have disappeared due to serious habitat destruction in the past 42 years...

According to a new assessment by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Bornean orangutans are now 'critically endangered.' Habitat destruction, illegal logging, and hunting are all to blame for the dwindling...

NEW INFOGRAPHIC SHOWS INTERFERENCE STILL HARMS SOUTH AMERICAN ANIMALS Hunting, poaching, industrialization and other eco-threatening human activities are proceeding at a pace that nature can't sustain...

Last month, Lake Poopó, a saltwater lake high in the Andes mountains, disappeared off the face of the map. In the 1990s the lake held at least 2,000 square kilometers (772 square miles) of water. While the water levels sometimes...

If animal populations continue to decline at their current rate, we are heading for a mass extinction. New research estimates that 41% of amphibians will be wiped off the planet by 2200 as a direct result of human activity....

Indonesia has the worst rate of deforestation in the world, with much of its logging activity illegal and therefore unreported. However, the country's new president, Joko Widodo, has taken an early stand against the destruction,...

Sir David Attenborough has added his voice to the campaign demanding U.K. company Soco International stop exploring for oil in Virunga National Park. Established in 1925, Virunga is Africa’s oldest national park and home...

In Malaysia, a rare form of malaria caused by the parasite Plasmodium knowlesi has leapfrogged other sources of the disease to cause 68 percent of the country's malaria cases in 2013...

What drives Tesla Motors and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to push so hard for crewed missions to Mars? Why, of all the projects and possibilities open to Musk, is that one so important to him? In a recent interview with Aeon's Ross...