I was an independent observer in the Greenpeace trial. What I saw was shocking
Greenpeace lost—not because it did something wrong, but because it was denied a fair trial. The stunning $667m verdict against Greenpeace is a direct attack on the climate movement, Indigenous peoples, and the first amendment.
Canada’s Marineland to rehome its whales and dolphins as it seeks a buyer
Canada’s embattled Marineland theme park is to raise money to “expeditiously” remove animals from its grounds, including the world’s largest captive beluga population, as it looks for a buyer. But a lack of available sanctuaries in the country suggests finding a home for stranded whales, dolphins and pinnipeds will be a daunting task.
Mississippi passes bill banning lab-grown meat
The Mississippi bill will make it illegal for anyone to manufacture, sell, or distribute cultivated meat in the state. Violating the law would be a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of no more than $500 and/or up to three months in county jail.
Victory for wild horses as federal court overturns BLM’s “corrupt” cash-for-adoption program
The Bureau of Land Management’s controversial scheme offered $1,000 for each wild horse adopted, but records revealed some people were ‘adopting’ the animals and then just sending them to slaughter after payment.
Dereck and Beverly Joubert
are award-winning filmmakers, National Geographic Explorers-at-Large and wildlife conservationists, who have been filming, researching and exploring in Africa for over 40 years. Their mission is the conservation and understanding of the large predators and other key wildlife species that determine the course of all conservation in Africa.
Costa Rica is saving forest ecosystems by listening to them
Monitoring the noises within ecosystems reveals their health—allowing researchers to monitor changes in biodiversity, detect threats, and measure the effectiveness of conservation strategies. In nature, living things use sound for almost everything.
Do worms feel pain and are ants happy? Why the science on invertebrate feelings is evolving
Does a worm feel pain if it gets trodden on? Does a fly ache when its wings are pulled off? Is an ant happy when it finds a food source? If so, they may be sentient beings, which means they can “feel,” a bit or a lot, like we do.
‘We’ve lost some parts of nature for ever’: Ukraine war’s impact on environment
As well as intense human suffering, three years of war have had a catastrophic environmental effect, killing wildlife, felling trees and increasing emissions. Since 2022, the Guardian photographer Alessio Mamo has been tracking the impact of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Life-size elephant herd exhibit coming to Hermann Park
One hundred and one life-size elephant sculptures will be showcased in Houston’s Hermann Park in April. Why it matters: The herd of Indian elephant sculptures has been migrating across the country to raise money for Indigenous and community-led conservation efforts.
A ‘recipe for extinction’: can the US’s envied nature protections survive Trump and his ‘God squad’?
Fears grow for endangered species as the US president sets about dismantling basic laws to protect them to make way for oil and gas drilling. Donald Trump has already begun dismantling parts of the envied US endangered species protections in his quest to boost oil and gas drilling, in part using a panel with an […]
Scientists discover ‘groundbreaking’ Jurassic fossil that could overhaul the evolutionary history of birds
Researchers have discovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China, featuring a short tail structure that could rewrite the evolutionary history of birds. As detailed in a study published in the journal ‘Nature,’ the fossil could represent the oldest bird known to scientists and sheds light on the surprising diversification of birds during the Jurassic […]
Court restores protections for critically endangered whales off New England (The Hill)
A Massachusetts court restored federal protections for endangered whales off New England against entanglement in fishing equipment, overruling a lower court that struck down the federal rule.
