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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.

Photographer Edwin Martinez shares his magnificent photos online. We also answer some FAQs about this natural phenomenon.

For hundreds of years, marine turtles live in vast oceans and coexist with humans... but they must be protected at all costs.

Various eco groups sound the alarm—read here what you can do to help the planet.

Arctic summer sea ice melted in 2020 to the second smallest size since records began 42 years ago, US scientists announced Monday, offering further stark evidence of the impact of global warming.

Pink flowers and striped leaves caught the eyes of conservationists trekking up a river in Palawan’s Port Barton way back in 2012.

The illegal pet trade remains a key threat to the survival of endangered Philippine forest turtles (Siebenrockiella leytensis) as it had been in the past 15 years, according to a report by the international wildlife conservation group Traffic.

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, which hold enough frozen water to lift oceans 65 metres, are tracking the UN's worst-case scenarios for sea level rise, researchers said Monday, highlighting flaws in current climate change models.

Nineteen new individual whale sharks, locally known as "butanding," have been spotted in the waters of Ticao-Burias Pass Protected Seascape (TBPPS) off the coast of Bicol since the start of 2020, according to conservation group World Wide Fund for Nature-Philippines (WWF-Philippines).

Criminal networks are profiting from an "overwhelming" surge in plastic waste being shipped from rich countries to Asia and stoking pollution by burning and dumping waste that was supposed to be recycled, a report by Interpol said Thursday.