Biodiversity & Conservation

A Seabird Chick With 778 Pieces of Plastic in Its Body Shows How Bad Marine Pollution Has Gotten

By Kiley Price

Penguin Poop May Help Preserve Antarctic Climate

By Bob Berwyn

Fish Threatened By Farms and Mining Set to Be First Species Listed As Endangered in Second Trump Term

By Wyatt Myskow

‘Beauty Bias’ for Wildlife Among the Public and Researchers Could Jeopardize Conservation

By Kiley Price

Locals Oppose ‘Insane’ Plan to Sell 500,000 Acres of Public Lands for Housing in Nevada and Utah

By Wyatt Myskow

Wyoming Begins Exploring Voluntary Water Conservation Programs

By Jake Bolster

Captive-Bred Axolotls Were Successfully Introduced to the Wild. Can This Work for Other Species?

By Kiley Price

In Southern Arizona, Community Opposition to Mining Grows in Towns That Once Depended on the Industry

By Wyatt Myskow, Yana Kunichoff

Scientists Are Reviving Climate and Nature Research Efforts in the Wake of Trump Cuts

By Kiley Price

Five Patagonian Lakes Are Rapidly Drying, Study Shows

By Andrés Muedano

Trump Is Harming National Parks for Future Generations, Former NPS Director Warns

By Kiley Price

California Toxic Algal Bloom Blamed for Months-long Marine Life Poisoning

By Teresa Tomassoni

For Alabama’s Spotted Salamanders, a Win and a Warning

By Lee Hedgepeth

USGS Water Data Centers May Soon Close, Threatening States’ Water Management

By Wyatt Myskow

Illinois Delays a Project Meant to Keep Asian Carp Out of the Great Lakes

By Susan Cosier

Who Has the Right to Decide What Happens on Indigenous Lands?

By Katie Surma

Judge Asks Trump Administration for More Evidence That Funding Freeze Is Constitutional

By Amy Green

New Jersey Cut Back on Prescribed Burns in the Pine Barrens—and Faces a Wildfire That Charred Thousands of Acres

By Anna Mattson