Biodiversity

A decline in insect biomass and diversity has experts concerned and calling for more research to understand why.

We asked Leah Penniman, cofounder of Soul Fire Farm and author of Farming While Black, about the healing power of soil and ending an unjust food system.

Books on our ballot this month look at wolves, turtles, animal activism, the psychology of climate change and a lot more.

Will mountain goats be able to shed their thick winter coats in time for earlier warm seasons? The Mountain Goat Molt Project wants your help to find out.

In his new book, ethnobotanist Gary Paul Nabhan chronicles the efforts of “plant midwives,” women who are working to restore edible plants and healing herbs.

Disease has struck the rare Asiatic lions of Gujarat, and other new threats have put their recovery in jeopardy. What will it take to save them?

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

Books coming out this month include a series of terrifying climate-change novellas and a look at the occupation of Oregon’s Malheur Wildlife Refuge.

The “6th Extinction” card deck offers you a chance to lean about lost species — while playing poker.

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