Biodiversity & Conservation

Mass Sloth Deaths in Florida Are a Warning About Wildlife Trade and Pandemic Risk, Scientists Say

Necropsy reports from sloths imported by an Orlando business found the animals were riddled with bacteria, parasites and viruses. The situation illustrates how the wildlife trade poses risks to public health.

By Katie Surma, Kiley Price

Feds Will Soon Impose New Framework on Colorado River if States Can’t Agree How to Manage It

By Wyatt Myskow

Mangrove Forests Fight Climate Change—But Climate Change Is Fighting Back

By Kiley Price

A ‘Reforestation Pipeline’ in New Mexico Trains Seedlings to Survive in Burn Scars

By Tina Deines

Dolphins, Sharks, Turtles and Workers Are All Victims of Unregulated Squid Fleets

By Johnny Sturgeon

Supreme Court’s Limitation on Wetlands Protection Will Make Flooding Worse

By Lisa Sorg

Logging Project Near Yellowstone Could Threaten Wildlife Habitat and Tourist-Dependent Businesses

By Mosabber Hossain

Coral Reefs in French Polynesia Are Stuck Between Life and Death

By Ryan Green

A Georgia Wildlife Haven Forged by Fire and Peat Nears UNESCO Recognition

By Ryan Krugman

Let Terry Tempest Williams Teach You How to Find Your Own Glorians

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

Scientists Outplant Experimental ‘Flonduran’ Corals in Florida’s Dry Tortugas National Park

By Teresa Tomassoni

As Federal Wetlands’ Protections Falter, Washington State Scientists Turn to AI as a Conservation Tool

By Chad Small

Malnourished Gray Whales of the Eastern North Pacific Are in ‘Serious Trouble’

By Blaine Harden

A Bit of Good News for Right Whales

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, Living on Earth

China’s Shark Finning Could Lead to US Seafood Sanctions

By Johnny Sturgeon

Trump Officials, Billionaires and the Quiet Reshaping of America’s Public Lands

By Evan Simon and Ames Alexander, Floodlight

Fire in the ‘Galapagos of North America’ Risks Species Found Nowhere Else

By Kiley Price

Trump Administration Bans a Nonprofit’s Bison From Grazing on Federal Lands, but Spares Tribes

By Blaine Harden

Amazon Deforestation at Eight-Year Low, Report Shows

By Gabriel Matias Castilho