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Water buffaloes wade through the Chibayish marshes in Iraq on Thursday.

ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife

May 8, 2026

Iraq’s historic marshes revive as water returns after years of drought

By Mohammed Aty

Rising water levels are beginning to revive the country's wetlands, drawing buffalo herders and fishermen back to areas once abandoned.

Shorebirds gather
in dense flocks at Higashiyoka Higata (tidal flats), pushed together by the rising tide.

ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife / Perspectives

May 4, 2026

At 70, chasing birds across a changing Japan

By Mark Brazil

From subtropical islands to northern coasts, a quest for rare sightings becomes a meditation on memory, effort and environmental change.

Rajendra Garawad, the deputy inspector-general of forest at India's National Tiger Conservation Authority, inspects a sedated cheetah at the Rooiberg veterinary facility, Limpopo province, South Africa, on Feb. 17, 2023.

ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife

Feb 19, 2026

India celebrates cheetah births to boost reintroduction bid

By Peter Martelli

African cheetahs were first reintroduced to India in September 2022 following the extinction of the Asiatic subspecies in the country in 1952.

OceanXplorer's Neptune submersible is designed for scientific collection and observation.

ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife

Jan 27, 2026

’So little we know’: In submersibles revealing the deep sea

By Sara Hussein

Large parts of the ocean, particularly the deep sea floor, are not even mapped, let alone explored.

At least 172 out of 1,928 assessed species of wild bees face extinction in Europe, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife

Oct 13, 2025

Europe’s bees and butterflies at risk, conservation body says

At least 172 out of 1,928 assessed species of wild bees face extinction in Europe compared to 77 in 2014, the IUCN has said.

Jane Goodall spun her love of wildlife into a lifelong campaign that took her from a seaside English village to Africa and then across the globe in a quest to better understand chimpanzees.

ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife

Oct 2, 2025

Wildlife advocate and primate expert Jane Goodall dies at 91

By Susan Heavey

The scientist and global activist was a pioneer in her field, both as a female scientist in the 1960s and for her work studying the behavior of primates.

A polar bear at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo on Thursday. The Arctic animals are among the most vulnerable species to Japan's scorching summer heat and zookeepers have to take a number of precautions in order to keep them safe.

ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife / OUR PLANET

Aug 31, 2025

How Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo helps their animals cope with extreme heat

By Carolina Pichardo

From limiting their time outdoors to serving frozen food, the staff at Ueno Zoo take a number of measures to help the animals cope with the heat.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Community programs and tracking systems are expanding across Japan as local governments search for ways to prevent dementia-related disappearances.

He told his wife he was ‘coming home.’ Then he disappeared.

By Alex K.T. Martin

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TDC Global challenges norms at Japan workplaces

TDC Global challenges norms at Japan workplaces

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