Our closest known relatives are on the brink of extinction. Can we save them in time?

In Zimbabwe, traditional conservation methods offer new hope for this heavily trafficked, reclusive, and shy animal.

Half a century after the novel’s publication, the Glen Canyon Dam still stands, now home to the world’s largest mud puddle.

To plant a tree is to affirm one’s faith in the future, while at the same time reckoning with the sadness inherent in the comparative brevity of a human lifespan.

The emerging science of social biomimicry still places too much value on human constructs. There are ways around that.

This is how hedgehogs coexist with us in the urban environment. Their time is when most of us are sleeping; their place is in the gaps and disregarded spaces of our busy city lives.

In the ruins of abandoned strip mines, a broad movement aims to create the nation’s first “Climate Preserve.”

One of the world’s rarest civets is threatened by the world’s most expensive coffee.

Our ongoing study in Bali reveals a surprising level of trade in protected species — and offers a strategy for ending it.

We can’t recover from a hurricane — or government oppression — without deepening our ties to each other.