As a government decision looms on the future of rodenticides, a stark photo has illustrated the risk they pose to our native wildlife. "Freely available", the controversial products target pests like ...

New data challenges the conventional narrative that humans were the main cause of deforestation on this remote Pacific ...

For decades, the story of Easter Island has been used as a cautionary ecological tale: people cut down their own trees, chaos ensued, and the society collapsed. The long-standing myth paints the Rapa ...

The Christmas Island shrew was a small, short-legged creature with a pointed muzzle. Like other shrews, it resembled a mouse and weighed around 4-6 grams (under 0.2 oz). It was once abundant on ...

A leading researcher has described the extinction of the Christmas Island shrew as "another stain" on Australia's environmental record. The mouse-sized mammal was officially added to the International ...

The Christmas Island shrew is no more. Australia’s only shrew species has officially been declared extinct in the latest update of the IUCN’s Red List of Threatened Species. This little mammal, once ...

Victor Vasquez, a manager with Truckee Meadows Pest Control, told the Reno Gazette Journal on Sept. 24 that he gets calls everyday to address rat problems local residents are having. "Some days are ...

City data actually suggest that rat sightings are declining. But horror stories are everywhere, and a single rat in a stroller is enough to set off a panic. By Christopher Maag Rachel Chase, a ...

Heat waves shimmer along Pine Street. A rancid, somehow warm fishy smell wafts from Momiji’s dumpster, which is baking in the hot sun on 12th Avenue. The crumb rubber in Bobby Morris Playfield’s ...

A once-thought-extinct species has made a remarkable comeback on Rábida Island in the Galápagos, thanks to a groundbreaking conservation effort. The Galápagos Islands, renowned for their unique ...