Biodiversity

Experts say the growing commercial trade in wild, threatened species like corals is unacceptable and irresponsible.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The world still faces a growing extinction crisis, but that hasn’t stopped conservation efforts or individual overachievers. Here are some of the animals who made a difference.

In 2024 our experts explored subjects ranging from autocratic governments to green jobs and new ways to help endangered species.