Biodiversity

The tragic death, following an artificial insemination procedure, leaves just three turtles of the species alive.

How will the border wall affect jaguars, bears, birds, bees and other wildlife? And what other solutions might work better without harming people or ecosystems?

Decades after being wiped out in the Lone Star State, black bears are slowly returning. Experts fear that a border wall between the United States and Mexico would end that recovery.

Railways can be deadly for animals ranging from elephants to grizzlies and frogs, but we’re just beginning to understand the causes and solutions.

This month brings new books by Bill McKibben and Carl Safina, as well as important discussions about wildlife coexistence, poaching and dam removal.

It appears to have been wiped out by pollution, development and illegal mining by “sand mafias.” Will other plants soon follow?

There are specific things we can do to make sure good intentions don’t just transfer environmental harms from one place to another.

Asking why elephants travel to specific areas can help us to better understand and reduce human-elephant conflict.

Scientist Ellen Wohl explains why the administration’s decision to rewrite a key component of the Clean Water Act is scientifically unsound and dangerous.

Many ecologically important insects spend most of their lives in streams, but new research shines a light on how humans put them at risk.