Europe’s wild bees are in a death spiral – and the EU is about to make it much worse. The European Commission is proposing changes that would allow pesticide approvals to be granted indefinitely – with no mandatory safety reviews and no requirement to consider new scientific evidence on the harmful impacts of the chemicals in these products.

There’s an area of the Bolivian Amazon that scientists call a vital bridge between worlds. Here jaguars and pumas roam, maned wolves run, and shy tapirs gently forage – an entire ecosystem of species move through this natural corridor connecting the humid rainforest with the dry Chiquitano forest.

Rare elephants known as “super-tuskers” — the beloved elders of their communities — are being murdered for sport as rich hunters pay thousands to shoot them in cold blood. And it’s incredibly urgent because under Trump, elephant trophy imports to the U.

Mexico’s rainforests are under siege from greed: torn apart by oil companies, bulldozed for highways, and slashed down for timber. Entire ecosystems, and species like the iconic howler monkey who live among the trees, are hanging on by a thread.

Millions of acres of rainforest and peatland in the Congo Basin are being auctioned off for oil drilling, threatening to tear open one of the most unspoiled, carbon-rich places on Earth — and the only home of wild bonobos. This is the most aggressive push yet for oil in the Congo — and local partners are racing to secure legal protection for 1.

Polar bear cubs could legally be killed for oil. That’s Trump’s sick plan to make his upcoming auction of Alaska's Arctic Refuge more attractive to fossil fuel corporations.

When Mohammad Al-Sbeih saw his family's stolen land listed on Booking. com for the first time, his heart broke.

A company in Spain has a plan to torture a million octopuses per year – by raising them in crowded tanks and then killing them by plunging them in ice water, which causes a slow, agonizing death. The company — a seafood giant called Nueva Pescanova — knows octopuses are highly intelligent and feel pleasure, pain, joy and fear, but this is its way of turning a huge profit.

The Amazon’s stingless bees are some of the oldest and most important bees on the planet. They pollinate up to 90% of this vital rainforest!