A frog performs a balancing act in a region where amphibians are threatened.

A survey reveals the disease has decimated populations in Central and South America and tropical Australia and contributed to the extinction of 90 species.

DNA evidence points to Asian amphibians as the source of a fatal disease that has been wiping out frogs across the globe.  

A decade after chytridiomycosis killed scores of amphibians in Panama, some species are recovering. New research indicates why.  

Problematic dietary advice; the man whose cells were fixed with CRISPR; treating toads

Researchers eliminated chytrid fungus from a Mediterranean island toad population using antifungals and disinfectants.

Commensal skin bacteria adjusted their community structure when frogs were exposed to chytrid fungus in a recent study.

Bat populations ravaged; hundreds of amphibian species driven to extinction; diverse groups of birds threatened. Taking risks will be necessary to control deadly wildlife pathogens.

Meet some of the people featured in the December 2014 issue of The Scientist.