Environment

Activists Fight to Free Latin America’s Last Captive Orca After Decades of Isolation

Activists Fight to Free Latin America’s Last Captive Orca After Decades of Isolation

For over 30 years, Kshamenk, the last captive orca in Latin America, has lived alone in a concrete tank.

Activists Fight to Free Latin America’s Last Captive Orca After Decades of Isolation

For over 30 years, Kshamenk, the last captive orca in Latin America, has lived alone in a concrete tank.

Methane Pollution Is Pushing the Planet to the Brink

Methane Pollution Is Pushing the Planet to the Brink

Methane is a dangerous super-pollutant, trapping 80 times more heat than carbon dioxide. U.S. oil and gas operations are leaking far more methane than reported, accelerating climate change and threatening...

Methane Pollution Is Pushing the Planet to the Brink

Methane is a dangerous super-pollutant, trapping 80 times more heat than carbon dioxide. U.S. oil and gas operations are leaking far more methane than reported, accelerating climate change and threatening...

North Carolina Man Faces Down Wild Bear in Full Costume

North Carolina Man Faces Down Wild Bear in Full Costume

A black bear wandered into a quiet North Carolina yard. It sniffed a swing. It played with a toy truck. But then, something utterly bizarre happened.

North Carolina Man Faces Down Wild Bear in Full Costume

A black bear wandered into a quiet North Carolina yard. It sniffed a swing. It played with a toy truck. But then, something utterly bizarre happened.

Climate-Fueled Storms Are Leaving Wildlife Broken and Displaced

Climate-Fueled Storms Are Leaving Wildlife Broken and Displaced

They can’t evacuate. They can’t rebuild. And when the fires rage, floods rise, or winds howl, most won’t survive. From birds circling where nests once were to mammals burned, drowned,...

Climate-Fueled Storms Are Leaving Wildlife Broken and Displaced

They can’t evacuate. They can’t rebuild. And when the fires rage, floods rise, or winds howl, most won’t survive. From birds circling where nests once were to mammals burned, drowned,...

Florida Woman Fights Off Alligator with Bare Hands to Save Her Dog

Florida Woman Fights Off Alligator with Bare Hands to Save Her Dog

Her dog never saw it coming. A quiet Florida walk turned into a nightmare when a 6-foot alligator lunged from a lake and clamped its jaws around her rescue dog’s...

Florida Woman Fights Off Alligator with Bare Hands to Save Her Dog

Her dog never saw it coming. A quiet Florida walk turned into a nightmare when a 6-foot alligator lunged from a lake and clamped its jaws around her rescue dog’s...

Bonobos Break the Silence of Evolution with Human-Like Speech Patterns

Bonobos Break the Silence of Evolution with Human-Like Speech Patterns

In the depths of the Congolese rainforest, bonobos are saying more than we thought possible—combining calls into something eerily close to human speech.

Bonobos Break the Silence of Evolution with Human-Like Speech Patterns

In the depths of the Congolese rainforest, bonobos are saying more than we thought possible—combining calls into something eerily close to human speech.