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Only a single unsuccessful breeding pair returned to the Northwest Hawaiian Islands in 2022. New threats to the short-tailed albatross that did not exist when this species was included in Appendix I ...

HONOLULU, Hawaii— Today the federal government announced the initiation of a formal review to determine if the black-footed albatross should receive the protections of the Endangered Species Act. The ...

"There are only 22 species of albatrosses globally, 15 of those are threatened by fishing activity. Albatrosses roam the seas ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. The great albatross, a group of large seabirds, are ...

Some wandering albatrosses, the largest of seabirds, have begun breeding earlier than they did 30 years ago, research indicates. While environmental change may be responsible, it's not yet clear how, ...

There are only about 150 Amsterdam albatrosses remaining in the world. The species is critically endangered, and its biggest threat to survival — avian cholera — was likely inadvertently introduced by ...

The United Kingdom’s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) has recorded the first known instance of invasive mice preying on the adult albatrosses, according to a press release. Past ...

The oldest known bird to lay an egg and raise a chick landed over Thanksgiving weekend at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in the Pacific Ocean, apparently to do it again, at age 64. Her name ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

This YouTube clip, released in 2019 as part of a BBC documentary narrated by Sir David Attenborough, is so heartbreaking that it reduced many viewers to tears. Many people expressed their distress on ...