Oil prices jumped more than 3% after reports that two tankers transiting the Strait of Hormuz had been hit by unknown projectiles.

Forty at-risk animal species are gaining new protections from the United Nations. At a U.N. wildlife conservation meeting in Campo Grande, Brazil, on March 29, the Convention on the Conservation of ...

A new Stanford-led study offers the clearest picture yet of how some ocean life survived our planet's biggest mass extinction ...

Efforts to revive the thylacine and woolly mammoth are forcing conservationists to face a long-overdue debate over what kind ...

Scientists are increasingly worried we may be witnessing the start of the “sixth mass extinction” – the first to be caused by ...

Why do beaches today have seashells from clams and snails instead of brachiopods? A new study suggests the answer lies in ...

Manama, Bahrain—Conservation and animal protection organizations are alarmed that the UNESCO World Heritage Committee (WHC) today postponed an “in danger” listing for Mexico’s Islands and Protected ...

Washington, DC—Although the World Heritage Committee designated Mexico’s “Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California” as a World Heritage property in 2005 in recognition of the area’s ...

Representatives from 132 countries and the EU met in Brazil to address threats to species such as the snowy owl Representatives from 132 countries and the EU met in Brazil to address threats to ...

Representatives from 132 countries and the EU met in Brazil to address threats to species such as the snowy owl Christopher Edwards is a writer on the Lifestyle team at PEOPLE. He has been working at ...