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Marine biologist Anne Hoggett inspecting and recording bleached and dead coral around Lizard Island.

Parts of Great Barrier Reef suffer highest coral mortality on record

Parts of the Great Barrer Reef have suffered the highest coral mortality on record, Australian research showed Tuesday, with scientists fearing the rest of it has suffered a similar fate. The Austral...
African Penguins walk on the beach at the Boulders penguin colony.

‘Critically endangered’ African penguins just want peace and food

Mountmakers specialists work on assembling the skeleton of an Apatosaurus’ dinosaur named “Vulcain”, displayed at the Dampierre castle prior to an auction in Dampierre-en-Yvelines, south of Paris, on July 10, 2024. --AFP

Dinosaur skeleton fetches €6 million in Paris sale

A herd of Elephants consisting mainly of females and their young arrive at a watering pond for a drink at the Ngutuni Wildlife Conservancy on the outskirts of Voi town in Taita Taventa County.--AFP photos

Bees help tackle elephant-human conflict in Kenya

White truffles are on sales at the truffle fair of Alba.

White truffles, Italy's gold, menaced by climate change

A photo shows part of the Zittel hut (left), mountain refuge of the Austrian Alpine club, with its weather tower (center) and the Sonnblick Observatory on the summit of the Hoher Sonnblick mountain (3,106m), near Rauris, Austria.--AFP photos

Austria’s Alpine refuges and trails crumble as climate warms

A farmer harvests marigold flowers ahead of Tihar, the Nepali-Hindu festival of lights, at a field in Ichangu Narayan village on the outskirts of Kathmandu.--AFP photos

Nepali women's flowering prosperity from garland industry

Zootechnician Alejandra Curubo shows a tadpole.

Lab-grown frogs: A Colombian's response to wildlife trafficking

A chimpanzee is pictured at the Pridadomus recovering center, founded by Dutch association AAP (Animal advocacy and protection), in Villena, near Alicante. --AFP photos

Spain seeks ground-breaking law for great apes

Mushrooms are displayed on a bench during a picked mushroom checking session.

Picky protection rules hamper Swiss mushrooming craze

Zootechnician Alejandra Curubo shows a tadpole.

Lab-grown frogs: A Colombian's response to wildlife trafficking

Down a dirt track in Colombia, deep in a forest, conservationists are breeding prized exotic frogs to try to undercut traffickers who are plundering the country's jungles of its amphibians. A critically-endangered harlequin poison-dart frog (oo...
A chimpanzee is pictured at the Pridadomus recovering center, founded by Dutch association AAP (Animal advocacy and protection), in Villena, near Alicante. --AFP photos

Spain seeks ground-breaking law for great apes

For decades Achille, 50, eked out a miserable existence living alone in wretched conditions in a cramped circus cage. But better days could lie ahead for the chimpanzee and almost 150 great apes in Spain who stand to benefit from a pioneering bill t...
Mushrooms are displayed on a bench during a picked mushroom checking session.

Picky protection rules hamper Swiss mushrooming craze

After suffocating COVID-19 restrictions, many embraced the call of the wild and the joys of foraging, but tightening Swiss biodiversity protection measures are infuriating growing hordes of mushroom-picking enthusiasts. The pandemic times “made pe...
After collecting mushrooms for a biodiversity survey, participants photograph and record details about the morphology and growing environment of each mushroom before sending the samples for DNA sequencing to aid in identifying the fungi.

Fungi finding: Mushroom hunters seek new species and recognition

You can’t walk very far through a forest in this part of the United States without stumbling upon a mushroom, an eruption from a vast fungal kingdom that all life depends on, but about which we know very little. Some are tall and thin with a helme...
Egyptian geese are photographed on the banks of a pond in Ay-sur-Moselle, north eastern France, on September 12, 2024. --AFP photos

Egyptian geese spread wings in France, threatening biodiversity

They came a long way from sub-Saharan Africa to eastern France — but now the Egyptian geese are quite at home there and are chasing out local ducks and swans, just one symptom of the world’s biodiversity crisis. Recognizable by the brown eye mar...
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NEW YORK: Italian visual artist Maurizio Cattelan's duct-taped banana entitled "Comedian" is on display during a media preview at Sotheby's on Nov 8, 2024. - AFP
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