Biodiversity & Conservation
A Town Board in Colorado Repeals Rights of Nature Resolutions
By Katie Surma
Oregon’s Owyhee Canyonlands Is the Biggest Conservation Opportunity Left in the West. If Congress Won’t Protect it, Should Biden Step in?
By Wyatt Myskow
Historic Agreement with the Federal Government and Arizona Gives Colorado River Indian Tribes Control Over Use of Their Water off Tribal Land
By Noel Lyn Smith
Florida in 50 Years: Study Says Land Conservation Can Buffer Destructive Force of Climate Change
By Bill Kearney, South Florida Sun Sentinel
Increasingly Frequent Ocean Heat Waves Trigger Mass Die-Offs of Sealife, and Grief in Marine Scientists
By Bob Berwyn
The Government Is Set To Reintroduce Grizzly Bears to the North Cascades. What Happens Now?
By Kiley Price
‘Truth, Reckoning and Right Relationship’: A Rights of Nature Epiphany
By Katie Surma
The Recovering America’s Wildlife Act Is Still a Bipartisan Unicorn
By Erin X. Wong, High Country News
The Biden Administration Makes Two Big Moves To Conserve Public Lands, Sparking Backlash From Industry
By Kiley Price
Jared Kushner Has Big Plans for Delta of Europe’s Last Wild River
By Fred Pearce, Yale Environment 360
Reduced Snow Cover and Shifting Vegetation Are Disrupting Alpine Ecosystems, Study Finds
By Moriah McDonald
After 13 Years, No End in Sight for Caribbean Sargassum Invasion
By Freeman Rogers/The BVI Beacon, Olivia Losbar/RCI Guadeloupe, Maria Monsalve/El País, Krista Campbell/Television Jamaica, Suzanne Carlson/The Virgin Islands Daily News, Centro de Periodismo Investigativo
How a Tiny Inland Shorebird Could Help Save the Great Salt Lake
By Wyatt Myskow
NOAA Declares a Global Coral Bleaching Event in 2023
By Bob Berwyn
As the Federal Government Proposes a Plan to Cull Barred Owls in the West, the Debate Around ‘Invasive’ Species Heats Up
By Kiley Price
Western Conservationists and Industry Each Tout Wins in a Pair of Rulings From the Same Court
By Jake Bolster
