Ecologists first sounded the alarm about frogs and other amphibians in the early 1990s. Since then, they've stomped around enough swamps and ponds to know for certain that the decline is both real and ...
New findings may help ecologists understand the spread of a deadly fungus decimating amphibian populations worldwide. A group of fungi called chytrids, which includes a frog-killing pathogen, ...
Last July, Dr. Donald F. Anthrop wrote a letter, “Pesticides killing Frogs? Poppycock” (HCN, 7/7/03: Pesticides killing Frogs? Poppycock), criticizing an earlier report by Cosmo Garvin (HCN, 5/26/03) ...
Wildlife officials in Hawaii are using aerial drones to wage chemical warfare on coqui frogs by dumping citric acid on these invasive creatures, thereby killing them — along with any tadpoles and eggs ...
A fungal infection some scientists consider one of the worst wildlife diseases of all time is wreaking havoc on the global frog population. Now, scientists say they’ve discovered a way to help frogs ...
Ever since I first learned about the devastating disease killing frogs worldwide, I knew I wanted to be part of the solution. In the 1980s, mysterious die-offs started occurring in frogs in Australia ...
WASHINGTON -- Zoos in the U.S., Panama and Mexico are deploying researchers in Central America to develop new ways to fight a fungus blamed for wiping out dozens of frog and amphibian species as part ...