Biodiversity & Conservation

Warming Trends: Chilling in a Heat Wave, Healthy Food Should Eat Healthy Too, Breeding Delays for Wild Dogs, and Three Days of Climate Change in Song

A column highlighting climate-related studies, innovations, books, cultural events and other developments from the global warming frontier.

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Rediscovered Reports From 19th-Century Environmental Volunteers Advance the Research of Today’s Citizen Scientists in New York

By Rachel Rodriguez

Warming Trends: Putting Citizen Scientists to Work, Assuring Climate-Depressed Kids That the Future is Bright, and Deploying Solar-Hydrogen Generators

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Protecting Mexico’s Iconic Salamander Means Saving one of the Country’s Most Important Wetlands

By Myriam Vidal

Warming Trends: How Hairdressers Are Mobilizing to Counter Climate Change, Plus Polar Bears in Greenland and the ‘Sounds of the Ocean’

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Why the Chesapeake Bay’s Beloved Blue Crabs Are at an All-Time Low

By Aman Azhar

From Spring to Fall, New York Harbor Is a Feeding Ground for Bottlenose Dolphins, a New Study Reveals

By Daelin Brown

In an Attempt to Wrestle Away Land for Game Hunters, Tanzanian Government Fires on Maasai Farmers, Killing Two

By Katie Surma

As Animals Migrate Because of Climate Change, Thousands of New Viruses Will Hop From Wildlife to Humans—and Mitigation Won’t Stop Them

By Victoria St. Martin

Warming Trends: Butterflies Bounce Back, Growing Up Gay Amid High Plains Oil, Art Focuses on Plastic Production

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Habitat Protections for Florida’s Threatened Manatees Get an Overdue Update

By Amy Green, WMFE

California Water Regulators Still Haven’t Considered the Growing Body of Research on the Risks of Oil Field Wastewater

By Liza Gross

Warming Trends: Weather Guarantees for Your Vacation, Plus the Benefits of Microbial Proteins and an Urban Bias Against the Environment

By Katelyn Weisbrod

In ‘Silent Spring,’ Rachel Carson Described a Fictional, Bucolic Hamlet, Much Like Her Hometown. Now, There’s a Plastics Plant Under Construction 30 Miles Away

By Kiley Bense

New Reports Show Forests Need Far More Funding to Help the Climate, and Even Then, They Can’t Do It All

By Georgina Gustin

Indian Court Rules That Nature Has Legal Status on Par With Humans—and That Humans Are Required to Protect It

By Katie Surma

A Climate-Driven Decline of Tiny Dryland Lichens Could Have Big Global Impacts

By Bob Berwyn

Warming Trends: Tracking Bird Migration in the Night Sky, Plus the Olympic Mountains’ Rapidly Shrinking Glaciers and a Podcast Focused on Florida’s Polluted Environment

By Katelyn Weisbrod

The Current Rate of Ocean Warming Could Bring the Greatest Extinction of Sealife in 250 Million Years

By Bob Berwyn