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Hunter Donna Kalil has caught over 1,000 Burmese pythons and can tell you where she's captured them.

"This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist's weekly newsletter here."While President Donald Trump has issued a flurry of far-reaching decrees during his first week in office, one relatively niche issue has received a disproportionate share of the president's ire and attention: ...

Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center of Roanoke recently shared a video of a cute little bird that makes "oink" sounds.

Protecting and enhancing salt marshes in front of protective seawalls can significantly help protect some coastlines, at a cost that makes this approach reasonable to implement, according to new MIT research.

The Bethany Beach firefly is the first lightning bug species to be considered for protections under the Endangered Species Act.

Flamingos are exotic birds that eat upside down, can produce milk, are amazing parents to their chicks and sleep on one leg. How cool are they? The post Flamingos are beautiful and peculiar: Lifeform of the week first appeared on EarthSky.

As sea levels rise, engineers are using massive Dutch-inspired sand sculptures to protect shorefront settlements.

Nearly a quarter of the Earth's land surface is permanently frozen. These areas, known as permafrost, are found in northern polar regions and at high altitudes. But the permafrost is now starting to thaw—with potentially disastrous consequences for the climate. Here, we look at what scientists currently know about this potential threat.

A new study from the University of Southampton sheds light on the impact climate change is having on marine environments in a relatively recent global phenomenon known as "tropicalization."

When big storms hit, basements fill with stormwater and sewage. But there are steps that you and also government can take to help stay above water.

A dangerously thick "superfog" that caused a huge vehicle pileup north of New Orleans on Monday was made worse by wildfires burning nearby, according to local officials.

Hurricane Idalia sent nearly 10 feet of storm surge into the Big Bend region, and flooded towns hundreds of miles from landfall. Key factors sent surge down nearly the entire west coast of Florida,…

An increasing number of climate-driven extreme weather events is taking its toll on the world's major shipping routes — and El Niño could make matters worse.

The U.S. is now the world's top exporter of liquefied natural gas. Towns in southern Louisiana are paying the price.

Saltwater was once known as an invisible threat to farmers and their crops. It would sneak under the soil undetected on the surface until it intruded so far into groundwater that the soil became saltier and led to a decline in crop yields.

Amid the fields of northern Germany a vast expanse of bulrushes has been planted to form one of Europe's largest reclaimed marshes.

Alligators radically change the ecosystem around them to make the best of seasonal changes in water levels—and that's a good thing for wetlands.

Mangroves are growing in areas historically dominated by salt marshes and oyster reefs. Invasive pacific oysters are replacing native blue mussels in the Wadden Sea. Macroalgae are exhibiting dominance over hard corals in the Caribbean and Indo-Pacific. Climate change-driven shifts in dominant, habitat-forming species such as these can have significant implications for conservation, and this is a phenomenon that…

Salt marshes provide multiple ecosystem services, and one of those is protection of the coast against flooding. This is especially important in low-lying countries like the Netherlands.

A way of life nurtured for hundreds of years in the U.S. Southeast guard coastlines from climate change