Biodiversity & Conservation

Why Is the U.S. Proposing Protections for an Animal That Doesn’t Live Here?

By Kiley Price

USGS Touts Potential Oil and Gas Resources Beneath Public Lands in Updated Survey

By Jake Bolster

An Alabama City Recommends Changing Its Laws to Accommodate One of the Country’s Largest Proposed Data Centers

By Lee Hedgepeth

At UN Ocean Conference, Nations and Funders Seek to Create and Expand Large-Scale Marine Protected Areas

By Teresa Tomassoni

The Darter Fish and the Data Center

By Lee Hedgepeth, Lanier Isom

Saved From the Saw: Conservation Deal Spares 8,000 Acres of Sensitive Land in Alabama From Becoming a Wood Pellet Mill

By Dennis Pillion

Trump Officials Visit Alaska as Interior Department Pushes Proposal Rescinding Biden-era Arctic Protections

By Kate Furby

Animals—Living and Dead—Can Help Track Humanity’s Toxic Legacy

By Kiley Price

How Did the Housing Crisis Revitalize Efforts by Western Republicans to Sell Off Public Lands?

By Zoë Rom

‘We’ve Treated it as a Global Waste Dump’: Costa Rica’s President Calls for Action on the Ocean

By Teresa Tomassoni

Department of Justice Gives Trump Go-Ahead to Eliminate National Monuments

By Wyatt Myskow

Tonga Poised to Be the First Country to Recognize Rights of Whales

By Katie Surma

Across the Country, Locals Rally to Protect National Monuments Threatened by the Trump Administration

By Wyatt Myskow

UN Ocean Conference Opens With a Call to Defend the Deep Sea

By Teresa Tomassoni

The Race to Engineer Coral Reef Solutions in the U.S. Virgin Islands

By Teresa Tomassoni

Rockaway is a New York Coastal Community Trying to Fight Erosion–and Then EPA Cancelled Funding

By Lauren Dalban

Some Hopeful News About the Future of the World’s Corals

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, “Living on Earth”

People Using Apps Like iNaturalist and Merlin Are Helping Fuel Scientific Discovery

By Kiley Price