World Frog Day 2026 highlights how frogs support ecosystems and why their decline signals environmental problems.
Over the past week, hundreds of thousands of frogs stirred from hibernation and started traveling in large groups at night. It wasn’t part of a Biblical plague. Spring has come and the ground is ...
Volunteers spend spring nights outside with flashlights and rain gear to watch as frogs and salamanders cross the road. Their ...
What may sound like a spa day for frogs is all part of a global effort to fight the chytrid fungus — the deadly pathogen responsible for what scientists have called the largest disease-driven loss of ...
The post-winter rains have come, temperatures are rising, and salamanders are undertaking their once-a-year migrations to pools where they will breed. This important event, named the ‘Big Night’ by ...
A frog species known since 1838 may actually be several different species, according to a new genetic study of Southeast Asia’s “fanged frogs.” ...
By Mongabay.com March 20 is World Frog Day. Frogs and toads have inhabited Earth for hundreds of millions of years, but 40% of amphibians species are now at risk of extinction, according to the latest ...
Chilling new evidence suggests amphibians may be in worse shape than previously thought due to climate change. Further, the findings indicate that the 70 percent decline in amphibians over the past 35 ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. Frogs are on the edge. Blasted by habitat loss, pollution, and a terrible disease, the chytrid fungus, species are vanishing worldwide and those ...
Ponds and swamps are becoming eerily silent. The familiar melody of ribbits, croaks and chirps is disappearing as a mysterious killer fungus wipes out frog populations around the globe, a phenomenon ...