World population forecast to decline for the first time in centuries

'The last time that global population declined was in the mid 14th century, due to the Black Plague'

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Welcome to Earth review – Will Smith has Important Things to say, but he’s no Attenborough

Will Smith is looking worried. He’s about to traverse a mighty gorge by rope – and if a fall doesn’t kill him, the crocodiles in the river below will. Safely on the other side, having been hauled across by Albert Lin, an explorer, he laughs deliriously. In a movie, he says, a stuntman would have done that for him. Smith gets to have lots of new and scary experiences in Welcome to Earth, a six-part National Geographic series (Disney+).

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Virginia's bald eagles thriving at a never before seen level after pesticides ban.

A total of 1,070 occupied bald eagle nests were counted in this year's survey by the Center for Conservation Biology at the College of William and Mary. It's the first time more than 1,000 have been counted since the survey started 60 years ago. This marks a remarkable comeback for the bird whose population had dropped to just 20 pairs in the state in 1970, said Bryan D. Watts, the center's director.

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What is happening to our drying river networks? A new app helps scientists find out

A new app is giving citizens the power to help scientists understand drying river networks. Developed by the EU-funded DRYvER project, the DRYRivERS app enables citizens to map and report drying cases in rivers and streams.

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What The Meat Paradox Tells Us About Human Psychology

The meat industry is, to put it bluntly, unfathomably cruel. Every day, billions of animals across the USA survive in horrific conditions

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900 bison at Yellowstone to be relocated, slaughtered or shot by hunters this winter

Officials have agreed to allow as many as 900 bison from Yellowstone National Park to be shot by hunters, sent to slaughter or placed in quarantine this winter in a program that seeks to prevent the animals from spreading a disease to cattle. An additional 200 bison among the park’s more than 5,000 bison could be captured or hunted in the late winter if those numbers are met, federal, tribal and state officials agreed in a meeting Wednesday.

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The Amazon is turning into savannah – we have 5 years to save it

We have been hearing warnings about the destruction of the Amazon rainforest for decades, but experts say a catastrophic tipping point is now just over the horizon. Are they right? And if so, what can we do to pull things back?

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