Biodiversity & Conservation
Florida Manatees Retain Threatened Status Under New Federal Proposal, Despite Outcry for Greater Protection
By Amy Green
California Rice Fields Offer Threatened Migratory Waterbirds a Lifeline
By Liza Gross
Scientists Call for More Marine Protected Areas in the Southern Ocean
By Teresa Tomassoni
Steep Lodging Rates Price Some Visitors Out of National Parks
By Lori Sonken, National Parks Traveler
To Save the Great Salt Lake, Farmers Will Have to Grow Less Alfalfa
By Wyatt Myskow
The Renewable Energy Transition Has Residents of a Small Arizona Town on Edge
By Esther Frances, Megija Medne and Phillip Powell
Border Agency Seeks Solutions With Mexico on Water, Sewage Problems
By Martha Pskowski
How to Help Your Garden (or Even Some Fish) With Your Dried-Out Christmas Tree
By Kiley Price
Elevated Levels of Radium Found in Western Pennsylvania’s Freshwater Mussels
By Kiley Bense
The Year in Climate: Record Heat, an Election, a Push for Justice and Reasons for Hope
By Dan Gearino, ICN Staff
Not Living Fast and Dying Young: Why Older, Bigger Animals Matter
By Georgina Gustin
In Mobile Bay, the Oysters’ Tale of Woe
By Lanier Isom
Decades After It Disappeared, Wild Rice Is Booming Again on the Upper Mississippi River
By Madeline Heim, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
How the Renewable Energy Boom Is Remaking the American West
By Jimmy Tobias
‘Amazon of the Seas’ Threatened by Oil and Gas Developments
By Teresa Tomassoni
Birding Is a Much (Much) Bigger Industry Than You Knew
By Kiley Price