No Songs For LoversBirds Learn Mating Calls From Older Birds. But What Happens When Older Birds Have Died Out? The survival of an endangered songbird species is further threatened because so few of its adults remain to teach love songs. By Aditi Murti
Aflockalypse NowMass Bird Deaths Are Increasing in Frequency and Magnitude. Why? Causes range from disease to toxicity to climate change -- but all boil down to human activity. By Liesl Goecker
Limited OptionsIndian Tigers Are Inbreeding as Habitat Loss Restricts Their Ability to Find Mates, Research Finds "Whether this inbreeding compromises their fitness, their ability to survive, we do not yet know." By Satviki Sanjay
Slow DeclineVitamin B1 Deficiency Is Killing Wildlife Around the World Scientists can't pinpoint what is causing these deficiencies, but they are sure humans are to blame. By Liesl Goecker
Haathi Mere SaathiMadras HC Resolves Elephant Custody Dispute In Favor of Caretaker, Citing Their Emotional Bond The court approached the dispute as it would a child custody case, focusing on the emotional well-being of the elephant in its judgment. By Devrupa Rakshit
Conservation DisasterBotswana Government Says Cyanobacteria In Water Holes Was Behind Mass Elephant Die‑off “If you look at the carcasses, some of them have fallen straight on their face, indicating they died very quickly." By Aditi Murti
Surprise LifelineChina Removes Endangered Pangolin Scales From Its Official Traditional Medicine Ingredient List The country also elevated the mammal's rank in its wildlife protection law, affording it the same protection as pandas. By Aditi Murti
The CO2 DietScientists Discover the Filtration Process of A Sea Creature That Cleans Carbon From the Ocean The giant Larvacean traps carbon in its mucus feeding apparatus, and then discards the carbon-soaked apparatus into the deep seafloor. By Aditi Murti
Extinction Breeds ExtinctionSixth Mass Extinction Of Wildlife Looms, Warn Scientists More than 500 species of land animals are on the brink of extinction, and are likely to be lost within 20 years, scientists said. By Devrupa Rakshit
Toading The LineScientists Use IVF to Try to Save an Endangered Species of Toad The baby toad, conceived using frozen sperm, is named Olaf, after the snowman character in 'Frozen.' By Devrupa Rakshit
The End Times Are NighWorst Locust Swarm in 25 Years Threatens Food Supply in South Asia, East Africa Each of the hundreds of billions of insects eats their body weight in food every day. By Liesl Goecker
Eco DisasterWarming Waters Leave Great Barrier Reef on Verge of Mass Coral Death It would be the third such mass coral bleaching to hit the world's largest reef system in five years. By Liesl Goecker
Baby Light My FireCity Lights Are Keeping Fireflies From Having Enough Sex to Avoid Extinction Honestly, who wants the lights on every time? By Liesl Goecker
Evolution 2.0Birds Are Shrinking Because of Climate Change, Study Finds Scientists theorize that smaller bodies help animals cool off more effectively as temperatures warm. By Liesl Goecker
Now Or NeverLeading Climate Scientists Call for ‘Declaring a State of Planetary Emergency’ In the past decade, the world has blown past more than half of its climate points-of-no-return, and the effects are accelerating. By Liesl Goecker
For Art's Sake100,000 Mongooses Are Killed in India Each Year so We Can Have Paintbrushes Mongoose-hair brushes continue to be in high demand because of how fine they are. By Pallavi Prasad
Caught Red HandedReport: Major Global Brands Continue to Drive Indonesia’s Deforestation by Buying Illegal Palm Oil Nestlé, PepsiCo, General Mills and Hershey’s are among the companies named in an undercover investigative report by the Rainforest Action Network. By Pallavi Prasad
Bleak News60% of the Planet’s Wildlife Has Died Off Since 1970 Humans are wreaking havoc -- and the price isn't just animal lives. By The Swaddle Team