Recognition at last for Alfred Russel Wallace, who lived in Darwin's shadow

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Victorian naturalist's extensive collection of specimens and papers appear together for first time in online project Ian Sample The Gua...

Great ape habitat in Africa has dramatically declined

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Matt Walker BBC Nature 27 Sep 12; Great apes, such as gorillas, chimps and bonobos, are running out of places to live, say scientists. ...

Plastic debris reaches Southern Ocean, previously thought to be pristine

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Researchers on 70,000-mile voyage to investigate climate change say effect of humans is now 'truly planetary' Zoe Holman guardian.c...

Best of our wild blogs: 27 Sep 12

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Dempsey baby civets rescue from Life of a common palm civet in Singapore Burrowed time from The annotated budak Plant-bird relationsh...

Indonesia urged to quickly ratify haze agreement

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Channel NewsAsia 26 Sep 12; SINGAPORE: ASEAN Environment Ministers meeting in Bangkok have urged Indonesia to ratify the ASEAN Agreement ...

Creating ripples with 'water diplomacy'

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Pau Khan Khup Hangzo Today Online 26 Sep 12; Singapore's innovative water solutions have been hailed as a success story. Equally im...

Loss of Species Makes Nature More Sensitive to Climate Change, Study Finds

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ScienceDaily 25 Sep 12; When we wipe out the most sensitive species, human beings reduce the resilience of ecosystems to climate change,...

Laos’ last chance to save last 6 river dolphins

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WWF 27 Sep 12; Gland, Switzerland – A tiny population of six river dolphins, isolated in a deep pool in the Mekong River on the border be...

Tourists Banned From India's Tiger Reserves

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Julie McCarthy NPR 26 Sep 12; Can tigers and tourists coexist? The debate is rumbling through India, where the Supreme Court has temporar...

Coral Hotspots Discovered off Northeast US

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LiveScience.com Yahoo News 26 Sep 12; A survey of underwater canyons off the U.S. East Coast found a number of previously unknown hotspot...

Salt marshes to absorb carbon to 2050, but emit it later

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Alister Doyle Reuters 26 Sep 12; (Reuters) - Salt marshes around the world's coasts will help slow climate change until about 2050 by...

El Nino seen developing in September-October: U.N. weather body

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Stephanie Nebehay PlanetArk 26 Sep 12; An El Nino event, usually associated with significant changes in rainfall, is likely to develop th...