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Movement is growing to give legal rights and political representation to nonhuman animals, species and places

A new study by scientists of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) has found that elephant herds compete more for food in anthropogenically created grasslands than in forests even if the former has an abundance of food

Since passage of the Endangered Species Act 50 years ago, more than 1,700 plants, mammals, fish, insects and other species in the U.S. have been listed as threatened or endangered with extinction

There are now dozens of nature schools across New Zealand where children learn about foraging, planting trees and trapping pests

A court in New Caledonia on Thursday ordered the authorities to stop hunting sharks, saying multiple culls were a "disproportionate" response to any danger to swimmers.

Hawaii hardest hit by loss of eight birds, with an Ohio catfish, a Pacific fruit bat and eight freshwater mussels also disappearing

Jellyfish, like other cnidarians like corals and sea anemones, can regenerate rapidly, but how they develop the essential blastema has been a mystery until now. Read further on Dynamite News:

As the new year arrived in 2016, my home city of Newcastle upon Tyne was briefly the centre of global attention – for a puddle. The Drummond Puddle, as it was grandly known, was a watery hazard placed perfectly where converging footpaths funnelled a daily stream of victims to their…

Palestine’s natural splendour offered a landscape ripe for scientific “discovery”, description and expropriation by European imperial powers in the 19th century. And in the 1860s an English vicar named Henry Baker Tristram claimed its birds.