A sweeping analysis of some 14,600 conservation projects over 25 years confirms that bias in stark terms. The authors, led by Benoit Guénard, found that 83 percent of funding and 84 percent of projects went to vertebrates, leaving plants, invertebrates, fungi, and algae to divide the scraps. Within vertebrates, mammals and birds claimed nearly all support, while amphibians—though the most threatened of all vertebrate groups—received just 2.5 percent of recent funding, a share that is declining.
Animal communities, including thousands of tubeworms and bivalves, have been observed at depths up to 9,533 meters in the Mariana Trench, marking the deepest and most extensive chemosynthesis-based ecosystems known. These organisms rely on chemical energy, such as methane produced by microbes, rather than sunlight, indicating that such deep-sea life may be more widespread than previously recognized.
Marine experts say governments must protect fragile ecosystems from destructive practices such as bottom trawling and deep sea mining to combat the climate crisis.
The preserved area is more than 1,000 square miles, larger than New York City and Los Angeles combined. When Field Museum scientists visited the region in 2016 to conduct an inventory of wildlife, they estimated that the area is home to at least 3,000 species of plants, 550 fish species, 110 amphibians, 100 reptiles, and 160 mammals.
The study titled, "Expansion of the genomic and functional diversity of global ocean giant viruses," was published on April 21, 2025 in the journal Nature npj Viruses.
Vent, who is Koyukon Athabascan and Iñupiaq, was raised by her great-grandmother and her aunties in Huslia, a village of 300 in the vast, wild country south of the Brooks Range in northern Alaska. No roads traversed the spruce forest and boggy tundra. Rivers scrawled in great loops from the base of the mountains, writing their history across the flats in oxbow lakes and sloughs that gleamed with light. Huslia lay along one of the largest waterways, the Koyukuk. For generations, it and the region’s other major rivers had served as highways connecting the Alaska Native communities scattered in this trackless landscape to one another and to the fish camps and hunting places and berry-picking grounds where residents like Vent harvested much of their food.
Now, for the first time ever, an international study led by the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE), a joint center of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) (the Spanish National Research Council [CSIC]) and Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), in conjunction with the Botanical Institute of Barcelona (IBB, CSIC-CMCNB), has discovered a species of blow fly (family Calliphoridae) whose larvae infiltrate colonies of harvester termites.
The Great Bear Rainforest is the largest intact temperate coastal rainforest in the world. It’s been home to First Nations for over 12,000 years. It was an immense achievement in conservation when it became a protected area in 2016. The British Columbia government calls it a “global treasure.” It’s beautiful and rich with life.
Millions of bison once roamed the grasslands, until colonialism nearly wiped them out. Now, Indigenous people are bringing them back and restoring balance to their homelands
JAKARTA — Indigenous Papuans say they’ve been caught off guard by helicopters flying over their villages and excavators tearing down their forests in their area, all while accompanied by the Indonesian military.
These findings may also explain the “missing plastic problem” that has puzzled scientists, where about 70% of the plastic litter that has entered the oceans cannot be found. The team hypothesizes that coral may be acting as a “sink” for microplastics by absorbing it from the oceans. Their findings were published in the journal Science of the Total Environment.
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