January 2026 began with water everywhere. Across southern Africa, Europe and parts of North Africa, rivers burst their banks.

By Gregg Yan Locusts of the sea, they come by the thousands – and leave behind a watery graveyard of coral skeletons. An enormous wave of coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) is ...

Stilted homes in Andavoanemboka village, Madagascar, where female solar technicians have brought solar-powered light. © Bella Roscher / WWF-CH. In the stilted homes of Madagascar ...

A new MSCI case study in a series to be released over time on nature-related risk data, demonstrates the capabilities of newly developed, geospatially aggregated MSCI Biodiversity Risk Metrics which ...

A timeline of the events of what happened in the evolving story of the disastrous oil spill from a BP oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico off the US Coast. In one of the worst disasters in US off-shore ...

BEIJING (February 28, 2015) -- The worldwide population of wild giant pandas increased by 268 over the last decade according to a new survey conducted by the government of China. The increase in ...

- New WWF and Tesco report shows 1.2 billion tonnes of food is lost on farms, on top of the 931 million tonnes wasted at retail and consumption - Approximately 40% of all the food grown goes uneaten - ...

Alarming new data by the Global Forest Watch shows record-breaking tropical forest loss in 2024. It's time to speed up action to safeguard our forests. The latest Global Forest Watch data tells a grim ...

Today, plastic represents 95 per cent of the waste floating in the Mediterranean and lying on its beaches. Rome, Italy – The Mediterranean Sea is turning into a dangerous plastic trap, with record ...

What does it take to save the world's largest parrot from extinction? Dedication, ingenuity - and love. A hot June day in the Pantanal, Brazil. It's the dry season. Although this is the world’s ...

Beijing, China - WWF, in cooperation with the research organization GlobeScan, has conducted the largest consumer survey about the elephant ivory trade in China – 2,000 people in 15 cities – for four ...

61% of hydropower dams worldwide will be in river basins with high to extreme risk of water scarcity, floods or both by 2050 Climate change will dramatically increase the frequency of floods and ...