The sea ice cover in Canada’s Gulf of St. Lawrence is the lowest it has ever been since measurements began, and that is seriously bad news for the harp seals that are typically born on the ice. A cold-water mammal, harp seals rarely spend any time on land, National Geographic explained. Instead, they feed in […]
Four orangutans and five bonobos at the world-famous San Diego Zoo have become the first great apes in the world to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. The great apes received a COVID-19 vaccine made especially for animals. In January, a troop of eight western lowland gorillas at the associated San Diego Zoo Safari Park contracted […]
A Ph.D. student at Nara Women’s University in Japan was spending an ordinary day in the lab when she noticed something unusual. Scientist Yoichi Yusa’s lab raises sea slugs from eggs to study their traits and behaviors. One day, one of the sea slugs under study detached its head from its body, but the head […]
By Jacob Job Maybe you’ve seen a video clip of a fluffy white fox moving carefully through a frozen landscape. Suddenly it leaps into the air and dive-bombs straight down into the snow. If so, you’ve witnessed the unusual hunting skills of an Arctic fox. During winter at the most northern parts of Earth, snow […]
By Robin Scher Beyond the questions surrounding the availability, effectiveness and safety of a vaccine, the COVID-19 pandemic has led us to question where our food is coming from and whether we will have enough. According to a United Nations World Food Program (WFP) report, COVID-19 might have left up to 265 million people with […]
By Tara Lohan What does a biodiversity crisis sound like? You may need to strain your ears to hear it. In the past 50 years, America’s bird populations have fallen by a third, and worldwide the average mammal population has dropped 60%, writes acclaimed environmental philosopher and nature writer Kathleen Dean Moore in her new […]
A rare yellow penguin has been photographed for what is believed to be the first time. Belgian wildlife photographer Yves Adams snapped the shot in December 2019 on an island in South Georgia during a two-month expedition, The Independent reported. However, he first posted the photograph on Instagram this month. “While unpacking our rubberboats merely […]
With lockdowns in place and budgets slashed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many environmental protections vanished this past year, leaving some of the world’s most vulnerable species and habitats at risk. But conservationists at the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation were faced with an entirely different threat. Their beloved orangutans share a strikingly similar DNA to […]
By Brett Wilkins New data released Friday revealed pigs slaughtered at plants piloting a controversial new system—which speeds production while replacing many government inspectors with slaughterhouse employees—had much higher rates of fecal and digestive matter contamination than animals processed in other plants, information that the Trump administration hid from the public while expanding the system. […]
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