The golden toad, native to Costa Rica, has not been officially seen in over 36 years. A 2022 IPCC report named climate change a key driver in the golden toad's extinction. Researchers debated whether ...

The Golden Toad of Costa Rica’s Monteverde cloud forest, once abundant and brilliantly colored, declined rapidly after the late 1980s. A drying climate linked to El Niño, along with the spread of ...

In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference. Sometimes that interference is direct, poaching for big game trophies or ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. Biodiversity is declining, and global warming is a contributing factor. Some ...

Three years after the federal government listed a tiny Nevada toad on the endangered species list, a geothermal company seeking to develop a project near the toad’s only known habitat in Northern ...