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Killer whales that feast on seals and hunt in small packs are thriving while their widely beloved siblings are dying out.

Every year, as many as 400 million people are infected with life-threatening diseases by the Aedes aegypti mosquito. It wasn’t always so dangerous.

Trees now cover most of the exclusion zone, and climate change is making them more likely to burn.

Inside the U.S. and Panama’s long-running collaboration to rid an entire continent of a deadly disease.

Samoa’s population of “little dodos” is dwindling down to nothing, but the appetites of wealthy people keep putting these rare birds at risk.

To change the fate of the kittiwake, scientists are trying to model its world.

To save Brazil’s giant anteaters, scientists are grappling with one of the planet’s most transformative forces: roads.

In a warming ocean, Alexandrium algae are shredding marine food webs—and disrupting beloved Alaska traditions.

As winters grow warmer in North America, thirsty ticks are on the move.

First Nations communities are leading the effort to rescue the last remaining caribou herds from extinction.

In the landscape where Mad Max: Fury Road was filmed, a scientist is trying to understand a natural phenomenon that has eluded explanation for decades.

A writer comes face-to-face with the cat deep in the Amazon jungle and left with a new understanding of its surprising resilience to poaching and habitat loss.