Of the six sloth species, the pygmy sloth is the only one listed as critically endangered. The pygmy sloth lives off the coast of Panama and is threatened by climate change and habitat loss.

The sloth is the world's slowest mammal, so sedentary that algae grows on its furry coat. The plant gives it a greenish tint that is useful camouflage in the trees of its Central and South ...

Emperor penguins are not simply majestic. These birds are tough creatures who manage to survive in some of the harshest weather conditions imaginable. The penguins breed and live on frozen sea ice ...

Scientists have known for years that wolverines are threatened by climate change. They usually reside in Arctic and subarctic latitudes — and, when venturing south, they stick to high altitudes ...

Now two alarming new studies have been released that predict that the long-term security of our food crops be further compromised by climate change and other environmental factors. Now two ...

Different sloth groups can be easily identified by the number of long, curved claws on their forelimbs. The two-toed sloths, as the name suggests, have two claws on their front limbs, while the ...

A doctoral student with the Max Planck Institute, Bryson Voirin studies sloths and other species at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Mongabay.com's sixth in a series of interviews with ...

A historic agreement at the international climate talks will provide hundreds of millions of dollars for developing countries. It's nowhere near enough. The Indigenous peoples chapter of the ...

Research shows that bullet trains are a reliable, resilient alternative to flight disruptions caused by high winds and storms due to planetary warming. Air travel generates a lot of carbon ...

The president of the COP28 and the environmental defense fund declared a deal that aims to reduce methane emissions over the next five years. A look at the numbers on global climate change as ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — First, some families fled drought and violence. Now they say they have nowhere to hide from intense flooding as rainfall exacerbated by the weather phenomenon El Nino ...