1+ hour, 16+ min ago  (1581+ words) The first warning reached the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission before a single sloth had arrived in Orlando." On Dec. 9, 2024, a member of the public called the agency after seeing advertisements for a new business called Sloth World. The…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago  (1467+ words) WILLOW, Alaska'Corey Ercolani pulled a northern pike from a gillnet and slit its belly with a knife. Inside its guts lay fresh evidence of a growing biological crime: a dead juvenile salmon. A coho, or silver salmon, to be exact....

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (1675+ words) An exotic animal exhibitor whose sloth-encounters business was shuttered by New York courts is attempting to relaunch his operations in Florida, right as the state grapples with the fallout from sloth deaths at a different tourist attraction. Now, Wallach has…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (1686+ words) Pull! Pull!" shouts Scott Dexter, chanting the cadence for eight men gripping a rope. Pull!" With each pull, a 172-pound male loggerhead sea turtle is hoisted higher into the air. It takes several hoists to lift the turtle about 35 feet…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (624+ words) Death casts a shadow over life, not only for people but also other animals, plants and entire ecosystems. In some ways, the phenomenon is well known. A fallen tree sprouts a plethora of mushrooms while also hosting ants, beetles and…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (711+ words) At the end of May, eight endangered Asiatic lions died at a national park in India. Officials feared the animals had succumbed to a tick-borne parasitic disease that previously killed lions in the area." But over the weekend, the Gujarat…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (1208+ words) While their dazzling bright lights are visible from space, much of the global squid fleet operates in total darkness." Hundreds of former Indonesian and Filipino crew members working onboard squid ships have exposed widespread environmental crimes and human rights abuses…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1269+ words) FOLKSTON, Ga. The world's smallest heron hops from blade to blade in a patch of tall grass, testing its footing above the dark water as it searches for an evening meal. "This was already worth the trip out today," Joshua…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (675+ words) Nearly three dozen young lab-grown elkhorn corals were outplanted onto reefs in Florida's Dry Tortugas National Park this spring, including a group of "Flondurans," marking the first time this experimental cross-breed of Florida and Honduran elkhorn corals was introduced to…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (835+ words) From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio's environmental news magazine, an interview by producer Aynsley O'Neill with Amy Warren, the scientific program officer at the New England Aquarium. North Atlantic right whales were once so thoroughly hunted they…...