Sinking land and rising seas: the dual crises facing coastal communities
A double whammy of climate change and human-caused land subsidence means global coastal residents are experiencing extreme sea-level rise.
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An orangutan named Karen, the first in the world to have open-heart surgery in 1994, has made medical history again: Sheās among the first great apes to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
February, Karen, three other orangutans, and five bonobos at the San Diego Zoo have received two doses each of an experimental vaccine for animals developed by a veterinary pharmaceutical company, says Nadine Lamberski, chief conservation and wildlife health officer at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance.
450 butterfly species rapidly declining due to warmer autumns in the western U.S.
Over the past four decades, more than 450 butterfly species have declined at an average rate of nearly 2 percent a year, according to a study published today in the journal Science.
A lemur died from tuberculosisāa likely victim of the flourishing illegal pet trade
The ring-tailed lemur was emaciated and suffering from advanced tuberculosis by the time she was turned over to the rescue facility in southwestern Madagascar in April 2019. An alarming, golf ball-size mass protruded from the left side of her neck.
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