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Wildlife Populations Have Plunged Globally, But Some Buck the Trend

A new report by leading conservation nonprofits found populations of thousands of vertebrate species dropped 73 percent on average from 1970 to 2022.

By Kiley Price

Conservation efforts across dozens of countries have helped significantly rebuild global green sea turtle populations. Credit: Antonio Busiello/WWF-US
A fire burns in the Amazon rainforest on Oct. 2 in Iranduba, Brazil. Credit: Michael Dantas/AFP via Getty Images

Compounding Climate Impacts Drive Tropical Forest Decline

By Bob Berwyn

ExxonMobil's oil refinery in Baytown, Texas. Credit: Jason Fochtman/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

New Documents Add to Evidence in Climate Deception Case Against ExxonMobil

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A humpback whale surfaces in Antarctic waters on Feb. 4. Credit: Sebnem Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images

Scientists Urge Consumers to Stop Buying Products Made From Antarctic Krill

By Teresa Tomassoni

The Emerson Slough, part of a wetland restoration project, sits near a residential neighborhood in Oakley, Calif., on Aug. 1, 2023. Credit: Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group via Getty Images

‘Nature-Based’ Solutions Could Save Insurers and Policyholders Billions

By Emmett Gartner

A view of the Milky Way during a meteor shower over Joshua Tree National Park on Aug. 13. Credit: Apu Gomes/Getty Images

Our Future Might Be Darker—and That’s a Good Thing

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

Boats are left stranded on a dried-up river on the border of France and Switzerland during a heatwave in Europe on Aug 11. Credit: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images

Europe’s Extreme Summer Triggered Cascading Climate Shocks

By Bob Berwyn

Pacific Ocean waves crash into a seawall on Sept. 7 in Long Beach, Calif., as offshore Hurricane Marie generated heavy surf. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Incoming El Niño Is so Extreme It Doesn’t Have a Scientific Name

By Nina Dietz

Uncrewed aircraft specialists deploy a drone to detect hot spots as the Timber Fire burns in Los Padres National Forest on Aug. 30 near Big Sur, Calif. Credit: Andrew Avitt/U.S. Forest Service

Drones Are Already on the Front Lines of Wildfire Response. Robots and AI Could Be Next.

By Mosabber Hossain

An aerial view of the Malibu Lagoon State Beach in Southern California. Credit: Bernard Yin

A Century of Sand Debt Comes Due in Malibu

By Kate Waxman

Secretary-General António Guterres speaks at the opening of the General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York City on Tuesday. Credit: Michael Kappeler/dpa via Getty Images

Climate Crisis Is No Longer a ‘Distant Warning,’ UN Leader Says

By Dan Gearino

An employee of the German Climate Computing Center stands next to a supercomputer installed at the Hamburg center in 2016. Credit: Morris MacMatzen/Getty Images

Why Germany Is Building an Ark for U.S. Climate Data

By Christian Schwägerl, Yale Environment 360

A worker cools off with water during high temperatures in Amritsar, India, on June 29. Credit: Narinder Nanu/AFP via Getty Images

Super El Niño to Cause 451,000 Heat Deaths

By Arcelia Martin

In a new study, scientists found 500 chemicals linked to breast cancer in consumer products like cosmetics, plastic goods and detergents. Credit: Lindsey Nicholson/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Chemicals Linked to Breast Cancer Are ‘Ubiquitous,’ Study Shows

By Liza Gross

People walk through a flooded street in a neighborhood affected by Hurricane Melissa in Santiago de Cuba on Oct. 29, 2025. Credit: Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images

Breached Earth Boundaries Raise Risk of ‘Irreversible Change’

By Bob Berwyn

State Grid inspectors walk through a substation in Nanjing, China, on Jan. 29, 2025. Credit: CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images

Climate Super-Pollutant from China’s Electric Grid Is Cooking the Planet

By Phil McKenna

Several people are visible in the photo holding signs. One reads: "You emitted the carbon: we suffered the destruction. You caused the emissions: We lost our lives."

What Happens When Earth Passes 1.5 Degrees of Warming?

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

In the South Orkney Islands, a legal fishing industry targets swarms of krill where whales also feed on masses of the tiny crustaceans. Credit: Sea Shepherd

Whales Have Rebounded in the Southern Ocean. Scientists Worry Commercial Fishing Could Threaten Their Comeback.

By Teresa Tomassoni

People search through debris in the aftermath of flash flooding at Trishuli Center in Nepal’s Nuwakot district on Sept. 1. Credit: Arun Sankar/AFP via Getty Images

Climate Change Primed Nepal Glacier for Deadly Collapse

By Bob Berwyn

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