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In her new book Poached, journalist Rachel Love Nuwer travels into the heart of darkness that threatens elephants and many other species with extinction.

Two dams removed from Washington’s Elwha River were branded as salmon-restoration projects, but their watershed and scientific impacts are just as significant.

Small, remnant populations might look like they’re doomed, but a new study says they could still deserve protection.

A new study finds that large, charismatic species get the majority of research into felid and canid species, possibly at the expense of others.

Our exclusive map shows where pollution is projected to increase, county by county, thanks to climate change.

A hatchery program puts freshwater mussel benefits on center stage.

A new study — the first of its kind — finds that the world’s conservation areas fail to protect hundreds of rare cactus species.

For 50 years the Land and Water Conservation Fund has helped support thousands of projects across the country, but its funding may be gone by the end of the month.

Researchers have identified a new tree species in Cameroon, but it only grew in a landscape that has now been destroyed by agriculture.

A change in the way the Supreme Court thinks about the role of the EPA and other agencies could dramatically weaken environmental protections.