Without dramatic reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions, most of the planet's land-based ecosystems - from its forests to the deserts and tundra - are at high risk of 'major transformation' due to climate change.
Using high-resolution satellite images, researchers have detected a massive 88 percent reduction in the size of the penguin colony, located on Ile aux Cochons, in the Iles Crozet archipelago.
The first systematic analysis of marine wilderness around the world shows that only a small fraction - about 13 % - of the world's ocean can still be classified as wilderness.
New data shows that over 15.8 million hectares (39 million acres) – an area the size of Bangladesh – of tree cover was lost in the tropics during 2017.
Yosemite National Park's largest sequoia grove in the USA reopened to the public last Friday after crews completed a $40 million restoration project to protect the nearly 500 ancient trees.
The deaths of the majority of the oldest and largest African baobabs over the past 12 years is an event of an unprecedented magnitude.
An international study led by the University of Queensland has found that human behavior is dramatically affecting a region of 2.3 million square miles - around twice the size of Alaska.
Australia’s government has pledged hundreds of millions of dollars toward protecting the Great Barrier Reef, in what’s being called the largest single investment in the embattled ecosystem ever.
Local residents, infrastructure, and oil and gas pipelines could be at risk from the ground heaving and sinking in West Texas, US, after years of fossil fuel production, according to a new study.
Loggers are illegally felling rare and valuable trees to sell in China and Europe, making Cambodia's deforestation rate among the world's worst.
Chilean President announced on Tuesday the creation of three new marine sanctuaries encompassing more than 450,000 square miles.
The Seychelles announced two new Marine Protected Areas in a debt-for-nature swap designed by The Nature Conservancy and backed by Leonardo DiCaprio.
Warming temperatures off the coasts of Australia may be having a devastating effect on green sea turtle populations by turning almost all their offspring into females.
In the past decades, large areas of forest in Sumatra, Indonesia, have been replaced by cash crops like oil palm and rubber plantations. New research shows that these changes in land use increase temperatures in the region.
Neonicotinoids, the chemicals commonly found in pesticides, have been linked to colony collapse in bee populations.