Category: Around the Web

A pair of bald eagles in British Columbia are raising a red-tailed hawk chick in their nest. A nest camera put out by the wildlife rescue society Growls captured the...

The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity announced that the COP15 biodiversity summit will take place this year, but in Montreal, not in China, where it was scheduled to take...

Since they arrived in the early 1990s, emerald ash borers have destroyed millions of North American ash trees. Quarantines on wood shipments haven’t worked to control them. But managers have...

Researchers say feral cats are pushing a critically endangered marsupial to the brink of extinction. The Kangaroo Island dunnart (Sminthopsis aitkeni) is a small, mouse-sized marsupial found only on their...

Dolphins have been appearing more and more in New York Harbor, raising questions about what is bringing them to the area. To better understand, researchers are looking at the behaviors...

Researchers continue to point to COVID-19 likely originating in a virus carried by bats before it spilled over into an animal at a wildlife market and eventually to humans. In...

Arizona has reported the first cases of avian flu in the Southwest. The Arizona Game and Fish Department announced that federal wildlife officials confirmed the disease in three wild cormorants...

The Natural Resources Conservation Service is teaming with Ducks Unlimited to help farmers and ranchers restore grasslands and make other improvements to benefit birds in the Prairie Pothole region. The...

Joshua Tree National Park is temporarily closing a popular hiking trail to make it easier for bighorn sheep to get to water. The trail leads to Fortynine Palms Oasis, a...

Deep in the forests of India lives a colorful gecko species that only recently revealed its true identity. Meet Eublepharis pictus, also known as the painted leopard gecko. In 2017,...