Thousands of new species were discovered and described in 2007– Ten of the newly-described species were placed on a top new species list released by the Int’l Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State U.

Last week, the president of Kiribati (pronounced “Kiribass”) — a nation of 33 atolls, scattered across two million square miles of the central Pacific Ocean — warned that rising sea levels have doomed his country of 92,000 people.

Over the weekend, the Midwest suffered some of the largest flooding ever recorded in the region. See more about this year’s flood damage, and the effects of the disastrous 1927 flood in the same region.

Last year, in the wake of massive honeybee die-outs, the Senate passed a resolution “recognizing the importance of pollinators…” See NY and NJ events, or tune in to Nature “Silence of the Bees” on Sunday at 8pm.

The NJ State Dept. of Environmental Protection is catching flack for the decision to cut protection for more than 200 miles of streams that provide key drinking water supplies around the state. Watch report….

The African Environmental Film Foundation is working on a documentary about a man on a quest to save sea turtles.

Before Big Brown’s heartbreaking last-place finish in the Belmont Stakes last weekend, Charlie Rose visited the contender’s barn and spoke to his trainer, owner, and jockey about the horse’s chance to become the first thoroughbred to capture the Triple Crown since 1978.

The horseshoe crab, a crustacean that resembles an armored vehicle patrolling the beach, is one of the most useful creatures in the sea — a trait that could doom it to extinction.

Now that it’s hot as, well, Equatorial Africa here in New York City, the gorillas at the Bronx Zoo’s Gorilla Forest will be out and about their leafy habitats. Read more….

In 1967, villagers in Equitorial Guinea captured a remarkable baby gorilla unlike any they had seen before. Learn more about the rare white gorilla.