Biodiversity & Conservation
As Animals Migrate Because of Climate Change, Thousands of New Viruses Will Hop From Wildlife to Humans—and Mitigation Won’t Stop Them
By Victoria St. Martin
Warming Trends: Butterflies Bounce Back, Growing Up Gay Amid High Plains Oil, Art Focuses on Plastic Production
By Katelyn Weisbrod
Habitat Protections for Florida’s Threatened Manatees Get an Overdue Update
By Amy Green, WMFE
California Water Regulators Still Haven’t Considered the Growing Body of Research on the Risks of Oil Field Wastewater
By Liza Gross
Warming Trends: Weather Guarantees for Your Vacation, Plus the Benefits of Microbial Proteins and an Urban Bias Against the Environment
By Katelyn Weisbrod
In ‘Silent Spring,’ Rachel Carson Described a Fictional, Bucolic Hamlet, Much Like Her Hometown. Now, There’s a Plastics Plant Under Construction 30 Miles Away
By Kiley Bense
New Reports Show Forests Need Far More Funding to Help the Climate, and Even Then, They Can’t Do It All
By Georgina Gustin
Indian Court Rules That Nature Has Legal Status on Par With Humans—and That Humans Are Required to Protect It
By Katie Surma
A Climate-Driven Decline of Tiny Dryland Lichens Could Have Big Global Impacts
By Bob Berwyn
Warming Trends: Tracking Bird Migration in the Night Sky, Plus the Olympic Mountains’ Rapidly Shrinking Glaciers and a Podcast Focused on Florida’s Polluted Environment
By Katelyn Weisbrod
The Current Rate of Ocean Warming Could Bring the Greatest Extinction of Sealife in 250 Million Years
By Bob Berwyn
Florida Judge Asked to Recognize the Legal Rights of Five Waterways Outside Orlando
By Katie Surma
Warming Trends: Smelly Beaches in Florida Deterred Tourists, Plus the Dearth of Climate Change in Pop Culture and Threats to the Colorado River
By Katelyn Weisbrod
Warming Trends: British Morning Show Copies Fictional ‘Don’t Look Up’ Newscast, Pinterest Drops Climate Misinformation and Greta’s Latest Book Project
By Katelyn Weisbrod
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Unintended Consequences of ‘Fortress Conservation’
By Katie Surma
Across the Boreal Forest, Scientists Are Tracking Warming’s Toll
By Ed Struzik, Yale Environment 360
