From tiny seeds come big results: replanting seagrass meadows that help fish, protect coastlines, and absorb climate-heating carbon dioxide.

From tiny seeds come big results: replanting seagrass meadows that help fish, protect coastlines, and absorb climate-heating carbon dioxide.

From tiny seeds come big results: replanting seagrass meadows that help fish, protect coastlines, and absorb climate-heating carbon dioxide.

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Scientists also declared several other extinctions, including the first documented plant extinction in New Hampshire.

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But at the same time, it doesn’t take much to do tremendous damage to endangered species.

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The Trump administration has already rolled back planned limits on PFAS chemicals, which have been linked to cancer and other health problems.

Earthen homes present an opportunity for building sustainably, but first we need to overcome several institutional barriers.

The new field of conservation psychology offers valuable lessons for protecting the world’s wildlife — as well as ourselves.

The agency supports critical efforts to reduce wildlife trafficking, deforestation, land violence, and other threats around the world.

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Previous support and pledges from the United States have helped to slow forest loss in Brazil. Will Trump reverse that progress?

Other new research this month looked at snow leopards, wolves, wildlife crossings, newly discovered species, and … scorpion copulation?

Climate change, drought, and fires — all caused or worsened by human activity — are rewriting the future of ancient Sonoran saguaros.

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These howling good books examine how we’ve persecuted wolves, how we’ve helped to restore them, and how they embody humanity’s relationship with nature.

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The waters around the United States are home to many threatened species who need science-based conservation policies to save them from extinction. They won’t get that for the next four years.

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