With cold weather absent from much of the U.S. Northeast this year, what does a groundhog's shadow mean anymore?

A warming ocean is encouraging the growth of coral in the far Southern Hemisphere, overriding any effects of "acidification"

The death of an adult female kakapo (Strigops habroptila) on New Zealand's Anchor Island this past weekend brings the population of these rare flightless parrots down to just 127 birds.

OUAGADOUGOU , Feb 2, 2012 (IPS) - The story of a pair of buffalo aggressively prowling the edges of a village in eastern Burkina Faso is a warning sign of severe water stress in the region which threatens humans and wild animals alike.

Evidence gathered by one of prince's charities hailed as rare piece of good news for world's dwindling fish stocks

PUERTO MOLDONADO, Peru, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- A wealth of new, previously undocumented species have been discovered in a protected national park in southeastern Peru, wildlife conservationists say.

Malaria kills almost twice as many people worldwide as the World Health Organization estimates, according to a major study that is causing a stir this week. It claims a staggering eight times as many adults die of the disease in Africa as the WHO says.

NEW YORK, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Humpback whales on both sides of the southern Indian Ocean are singing different tunes, a totally unexpected finding, U.S. researchers say.

Jellyfish might be able to shut down a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, but they are not taking over the world's oceans and turning them into slime, say scientists.

VANCOUVER - Fisheries management in Canada places too much discretion in the hands of the federal minister, conferring "czar-like" powers that have meant the country has lagged far behind others in protecting its oceans, says a study by an expert panel of some of Canada's most distinguished scientists.

Scientists in Cape Cod are trying to determine what is causing dolphins to swim dangerously close to shore, with more than 100 becoming stranded in the last three weeks.

The Nagoya Protocol Implementation Fund (NPIF) - has announced its first beneficiary: a project exploring Panama's natural resources for use in the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries.

Leading scientists, including climate change experts, complain about opinion piece akin to 'dentists practising cardiology'

ScienceDaily (Feb. 1, 2012) - Yellow-cedar, a culturally and economically valuable tree in southeastern Alaska and adjacent parts of British Columbia, has been dying off across large expanses of these areas for the past 100 years. But no one could say why -- until now.

ScienceDaily (Feb. 1, 2012) - To generate phylogenetic trees and investigate relationships between organisms, scientists usually look for similarities and differences in the DNA.

Around 80 percent of the Andes' most biodiverse and important ecosystems are unprotected according to a new paper published in the open-access journal BMC Ecology.

Australia could introduce large herbivores such as elephants as part of a radical biological solution to the problem of wild fires and invasive species, says one expert.

ScienceDaily (Feb. 1, 2012) - Blooms, or proliferation, of jellyfish have shown a substantial, visible impact on coastal populations -- clogged nets for fishermen, stinging waters for tourists, even choked intake lines for power plants -- and recent media reports have created a perception that the world's oceans are experiencing increases in jellyfish due to human activities such as global warming and overharvesting of fish.

Naharlagun, Feb 1: The Hornbill Nest Adoption Programme (HNAP), a novel idea of Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Tana Tapi to conserve and protect hornbill nests in the fringe forest area outside Pakke Tiger Reserve and Wildlife Sanctuary (PTRWS) in East Kameng District, is attracting tourists not only from India, but also from other countries as well.

DO WE need to release elephants into the Australian bush? Maybe we do, ecologist David Bowman suggests. He thinks we need to consider such extreme measures to bring stability to the nation's disrupted ecosystems.