Biodiversity & Conservation
The Plucky Puffin, Endangered Yet Coping: Scientists Link Emergence of a Hybrid Subspecies to Climate Change
By Lydia Larsen
Most Countries are Falling Short of Their Promises to Stop Cutting Down the World’s Trees
By Georgina Gustin
Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes Sprawling Conservation Area in Everglades Watershed
By Amy Green
Corn Harvests in the Yukon? Study Finds That Climate Change Will Boost Likelihood That Wilderness Gives Way to Agriculture
By Kiley Price
A Frequent Culprit, China Is Also an Easy Scapegoat
By Ian Urbina
Q&A: America’s 20-Year War in Afghanistan Is Over, but Some of the U.S. Military’s Waste May Last Forever
Interview by Jenni Doering, “Living on Earth”
Fish and Wildlife Service to Consider Restoring Manatee’s Endangered Status
By Amy Green
Vessel Strikes on Whales Are Increasing With Warming. Can the Shipping Industry Slow Down to Spare Them?
By Kiley Price
Q&A: A Reporter Joins Scientists as They Work to Stop the Killing of Cougars
Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, “Living on Earth”
Desert Bats Face the Growing, Twin Threats of White-Nose Syndrome and Wind Turbines
By Emma Peterson
USFWS Is Creating a Frozen Library of Biodiversity to Help Endangered Species
By Kiley Price
Biden Creates the American Climate Corps, 90 Years After FDR Put 3 Million to Work in National Parks
Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, “Living on Earth”
Q&A: How the Wolves’ Return Enhances Biodiversity
A Fracker in Pennsylvania Wants to Take 1.5 Million Gallons a Day From a Small, Biodiverse Creek. Should the State Approve a Permit?
By Jake Bolster
Protecting Margaritaville: Jimmy Buffett, Bama and the Fight to Save the Manatee
By Lee Hedgepeth
Crowding Out Cougars
By Liza Gross, Photos by Michael Kodas