Environment news.

Nearly 90% of countries adopt biodiversity targets, but most remain off track (opens the publisher's site)

Nigeria drove thousands of gold miners from a national park. But can it keep them out? (opens the publisher's site)

COP17: The world has a plan to save nature. Is it working? (opens the publisher's site)

The UN Secretary-General has called for an end to the “war on nature”. On Monday, governments gathering in Yerevan, Armenia, will have to confront a more practical question: are they doing enough to win the peace and put the world’s biodiversity goals back on track?

Indonesian women cash in on mangrove restoration: Interview with community leader Wisye Sahambangung (opens the publisher's site)

This orca destroyed a sunfish and no one is sure why (opens the publisher's site)

Amazon deforestation falls 42% to a record low (opens the publisher's site)

The uplifting story of one of Zimbabwe’s pioneering women rangers (opens the publisher's site)

Fundraising to protect oceans, forests and other key nature sites falling short ahead of UN summit (opens the publisher's site)

Legal gaps allow rampant pet trade, poaching reptiles and amphibians towards extinction (opens the publisher's site)

Plastic industry bookkeeping plans hide chemical recycling harms, critics say (opens the publisher's site)

As US states reduce recently restored wolf populations, here’s what we risk losing (commentary) (opens the publisher's site)

‘Enclosed river:’ Women shellfish gatherers fight for access to mangroves in Brazil (opens the publisher's site)

Saving big cats: Storytelling duo Steve Winter & Sharon Guynup publish new book (opens the publisher's site)

Celebrity shark trapped in South Korean canal stirs concerns over warming seas (opens the publisher's site)

Americans want electric cars – they just can’t find them (opens the publisher's site)

Guterres urges faster action and financing to stop biodiversity loss (opens the publisher's site)

The United Nations Secretary-General appealed on Friday for governments, businesses and communities to accelerate efforts to protect biodiversity for future generations and all life on Earth.

As disasters mount, next UN climate summit faces a test of trust (opens the publisher's site)

Less than a month before the UN climate conference COP31 opens in Antalya, Türkiye, representatives of three successive summit presidencies gathered to address a pressing question: How can the world restore trust in climate action when the consequences of a warming planet are alr...

Vulture conservation project to target illegal killing and poisoning in Chad (opens the publisher's site)

Climate change could send more toxic mining waste into coastal waters, study warns (opens the publisher's site)

Seagrass meadows may offer coastal communities a more nutritious catch than reefs (opens the publisher's site)