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Plants & Animals Sep 30, 2020

Baby boom at Taipei Zoo lightens pandemic blues

Taiwan's largest zoo has celebrated a flurry of births in recent months—including pandas and pangolins—in a welcome boost during a visitor slump due to the coronavirus.

Environment Sep 17, 2020

New method adds and subtracts for sustainability's true measure

From loaning pandas to welcoming tourists to hike to sacred monuments, to regulating the sale of wild animals for meat, policies across the world seek to forge clear paths to sustainability.

Environment Sep 4, 2020

Striving and stumbling towards sustainability amongst pandas and people

The path to global sustainability isn't a one-way street and scientists at Michigan State University and in China use the world's adoration of pandas to show new ways to figure out how not to get lost.

Plants & Animals Aug 23, 2020

'The whole world celebrates' on-camera birth of panda cub

A brand new giant panda cub is sparking pandemic-fueled panda-mania, and officials at the National Zoo said traffic on their livestream spiked 1,200% over the past week.

Plants & Animals Aug 22, 2020

Birth of panda cub provides 'much-needed moment of pure joy'

Delivering a "much-needed moment of pure joy," the National Zoo's giant panda Mei Xiang gave birth to a wiggling cub Friday at a time of global pandemic and social unrest.

Biotechnology Aug 18, 2020

Tiny endangered shrimp may get big hand from environmental DNA testing

The San Diego fairy shrimp, a miniscule, puddle-dwelling crustacean that provides food for migrating birds, is nearing extinction as humans continue to encroach on its wetlands habitat. But a new approach to tracking the ...

Plants & Animals Aug 18, 2020

Free-roaming dogs prevent giant pandas from thriving in the wild

Before China declared giant pandas a protected species in 1962—hunters in pursuit of the black and white bear used dogs to track them. Since then measures have been put in place to protect the vulnerable pandas, but more ...

Plants & Animals Aug 17, 2020

'Keep your paws crossed!' US National Zoo giant panda pregnant

Mei Xiang, the female giant panda at the National Zoo in Washington, is pregnant and could give birth in the next few days, the zoo announced on Monday.

Plants & Animals Aug 11, 2020

Canada pandas running on empty as bamboo dries up

A pair of pandas on loan from China to a Canadian zoo are facing a food shortage as their supply of fresh bamboo dries up, officials warned.

Ecology Aug 4, 2020

Giant panda conservation is failing to revive the wider ecosystem – new study

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