CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — More than $1.2 million in grants is going to 11 projects to improve water quality, habitat, biodiversity and flood resilience across the Upper Connecticut River watershed....

FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) — A loon hatched for the first time in more than century in southeastern Massachusetts thanks to a long-term effort to restore the traditional nesting grounds for the...

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron says France will cooperate with Madagascar to find a solution for the Glorioso Islands, a tiny, uninhabited archipelago in the Indian Ocean which is...

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ROME (AP) — Thirty-two leading companies in the fashion and textile industry have given themselves a set of shared goals under a "Fashion Pact" aimed at reducing the environmental impact of their...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres leaves Friday on a trip to the G-7 summit of the world's major industrialized nations in France, a conference on African development...

BERLIN (AP) — A newspaper is reporting that the German government plans to stop supporting forest and biodiversity projects in Brazil because of what it sees as evidence of the South American...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Nearly $700,000 worth of grants have been awarded to conservation and river projects that will help improve biodiversity, water quality and flood resilience.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis-based collaborative is providing funding for eight biodiversity projects, including one in Africa.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the Living Earth...

You may go your entire life without seeing an endangered species, yet the globe's biodiversity crisis threatens all of humanity in numerous unseen or unrecognized ways, scientists say.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana wildlife officials have a message for those thinking about getting rid of unwanted goldfish by dumping them into a lake, pond or stream: Don't do it.

The Indiana Division of Fish and Wildlife warns that the small aquarium dwellers can grow "huge" in the wild, tend to breed prolifically and become and invasive pest.

GERING, Neb. (AP) — The public is invited to help uncover the biodiversity of the Wildcat Hills in the Nebraska Panhandle during the Wildcat Hills Bioblitz.

The event is scheduled to run Friday and Saturday, based at the Wildcat Hills State Recreation Area south of Gering.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.N. world heritage committee has designated Mexico's Tehuacan-Cuicatlan Valley as a mixed site, meaning it has human and natural features worthy of note and preservation.

The oldest evidence of corn domestication has been found in caves in the Tehuacan valley, in the southern state of Oaxaca.

Researchers have found evidence farmers were domesticating corn ancestor plants about 5,000 years ago.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York will encourage solar farm operators to incorporate bee-friendly vegetation on their properties under legislation awaiting Gov. Andrew Cuomo's signature.

Bees and many other species of pollinating insects face threats related to habitat loss and environmental contamination, a problem with implications for both biodiversity and agriculture, the state's leading industry.

The bill has already passed both the state Senate and Assembly.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The state of Virginia is developing a new data-driven way to prioritize what parcels of land should be a top priority for conservation.

Gov. Ralph Northam announced the new strategy Tuesday.

Matt Strickler is the state's secretary of natural resources. He says the new analysis method will weigh factors like biodiversity, water quality protection and high-value forest cores.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Students can learn what gives the Prairie State its name this summer thanks to a grant program that pays for field trips to study Illinois' biodiversity.

Gov. Bruce Rauner and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources have announced $107,000 in Biodiversity Field Trip Grants. The money will allow 9,800 students from 35 counties to take nature-based field trips.

GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — University of Kansas researchers say they may have unearthed a rare fossil of a young Tyrannosaurus rex.

David Burnham of the university's Biodiversity Institute says the teeth suggest it's a T. rex, but there is still more work to be done before the species is confirmed.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Earth is losing plants, animals and clean water at a dramatic rate, according to four new United Nations scientific reports that provide the most comprehensive and localized look at the state of biodiversity.

Scientists meeting in Colombia issued four regional reports Friday on how well animal and plants are doing in the Americas; Europe and Central Asia; Africa; and the Asia-Pacific area.

SAO PAULO (AP) — Greenpeace says the illegal logging of a Brazilian tree is causing "irreversible damage" to the Amazon rain forest.

The environmental group said Tuesday that flaws in the licensing system for loggers are leading to the "indiscriminate" felling of the ipe tree.

BAY MILLS, Mich. (AP) — Bay Mills Community College has received a federal grant to study biodiversity and pollution levels in Lake Superior's Waishkey Bay.

The bay is an important recreational and cultural resource for members of the Bay Mills Indian Community and tourists.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded the college $216,000 for the study. One part will involve taking samples to analyze levels of pharmaceuticals, personal care products, pesticides and micro-plastics in the water.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Ann Arbor officials say they're clearing trees to accommodate the annual deer hunt that aims to reduce the destructive deer population.

Up to 250 deer can be killed during the city's deer hunt this month, The Ann Arbor News reported .

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Here's something to tweet about: A new species of bird has been named for a retired Harvard biologist known as "the father of biodiversity."

The Rainforest Trust said Wednesday that the antbird discovered last year in northern Peru has been given the name Myrmoderus eowilsoni in honor of E.O. Wilson.