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Forests and other land ecosystems today absorb 30 percent of humanity's CO2 pollution, but rapid global warming could transform these natural 'sinks' into carbon 'sources' within a few decades, opening another daunting front in the fight against climate change, alarmed researchers have said.

The world is on course for a "catastrophic" temperature rise this century, the United Nations said Thursday as it confirmed that 2020 rivaled 2016 as the hottest year on record.

A UN-backed summit Monday of political leaders and CEOs pledging to reverse the accelerating destruction of the natural world was long on promises and short on cash.

Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Roy Cimatu has called on wildlife officials and personnel to ensure a continued strict monitoring of the wildlife in the country amid the restrictions imposed to curtail the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

Fifteen freshwater fish species endemic to Lake Lanao are now extinct in the wild, while two species could also be possibly extinct, according to the latest International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species.

We can contribute something, even in our own little ways, to fight climate change and to help heal the planet.

The call for sustainability must be an encompassing one. It is not only enough for eco organizations or passionate individuals to take up the cudgels for the environment, corporate entities must also make their operations and activities environment-friendly.

Some corals can recover from bleaching even in long heatwaves as long as humans don't interfere, scientists said Tuesday, raising hopes for the endangered underwater ecosystems essential to much marine life.

Conservationists in Ecuador have found a nest of endangered leatherback sea turtles, a whopper of a species that can weigh up to a tonne and be three meters (10 feet) long.

Climate change has become the biggest threat to UN-listed natural world heritage sites like glaciers and wetlands, and has pushed Australia's Great Barrier Reef into "critical" condition, conservationists said Wednesday.

A gardening craze dubbed "plantdemic" has spread across the Philippines after coronavirus restrictions fuelled demand for greenery, sending plant prices soaring and sparking a rise in poaching from public parks and protected forests.

TACLOBAN CITY (PNA) – Environmental group Oceana has reported rich marine biodiversity in Panaon Island in Southern Leyte as they embark on a 22-day expedition in the bid to help protect and sustainably manage the island’s underwater resource.

The population of Galapagos penguins and flightless cormorants, two species endemic to the islands, has seen a record increase, study results released Friday showed.

After months of meticulous tracking, authorities in the western US state of Washington on Friday said they had uncovered the first ever nest of the deadly Asian giant hornet in the country.

Hainan gibbons -- the rarest primates on Earth -- were already teetering on the edge of extinction in 2014 when the most powerful storm to lash China's coast in half a century ravaged their island oasis.

Pollution off the Pacific shoreline of the remote Kamchatka peninsula has caused the mass death of marine creatures, Russian scientists said Tuesday.

Water pollution in Russia’s  Kamchatka region that caused sea creatures to wash up dead on beaches prompted fears on Monday that rocket fuel stored in the region’s military testing grounds could have leaked out.

Botanists at the UK-based Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew has discovered a new species of a "possibly extinct" pitcher plant from Mt. Banahaw in Laguna and Quezon provinces.