A recently-discovered squid protein could be used to stop microplastic fibres leaking into the environment.
A review published in Frontiers in Chemistry, conducted by scientists at Penn State University in US, suggests material...
A small rodent that lived only on a single island off Australia is likely the world's first mammal to become a casualty of climate change, scientists reported in June 2016. The government...
Much of the planet’s megafauna is being driven extinct because of the usual causes: habitat loss and rampant poaching for body parts like horns, bones and tusks.
But there is another reason large...
The Russian military is taking measures to protect the residents of a remote Arctic settlement from a mass of polar bears, German press agency DPA reported.
The move comes after regional authorities declared...
More than 40 percent of the world's insects could go extinct in the next few decades, according to a report that lead author Francisco Sánchez-Bayo told CNN was the first global review...
As you might already know, Earth really needs us to eat less meat. That's why it's so encouraging to hear a record-number of people tried going vegan this January.
Organizers behind Veganuary, the...
It's not just consumers who are driving change in the food industry.
For the longest time, discussions around changing the food industry have centered on diets. Whether it was farm-to-fork eating, freeganism or...
Microplastics are being widely ingested by Britain’s marine mammals, scientists say, with samples found in every animal examined in a study.
The research on 50 stranded creatures including porpoises, dolphins, grey seals and...
A new solar plant in Hawaii relies on a flock of sheep to keep vegetation from growing over its panels.
The Kauai Island Utility Cooperative’s new 28MW facility in Lawai has employed the...
A heatwave that swept Australia in November killed a third of an entire bat species.
On the 26th and 27th of November last year, temperatures soared above 42°C, resulting in around 23,000 spectacled...
As 2018 ended, it brought to light the reality that some animals — after existing on Earth for millions of years — are gone for good. At the end of last year,...
Last week, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed a bill banning the use of elephants, tigers and other wild and exotic animals in circus acts that travel through the state.
Known as “Nosey’s...
Small bits of plastic packaging from waste food make their way into animal feed as part of the UK’s permitted recycling process.
Plastic traces in animal feed could pose a risk to human...
Tasmania’s critically endangered swift parrots are facing a new threat to survival – polyamory.
A study by researchers at the Australian National University, published in the Journal of Animal Ecology, has found that...
At the end of September, four rescued orangutans returned to their home in the rainforest after undergoing lengthy rehabilitation at International Animal Rescue's (IAR) conservation center in West Borneo, where I work...
As AI-powered drones and self-driving cars slowly come to occupy our cities, a question arises: how will they behave towards the living beings they encounter on the way? While research on human...
