Biodiversity

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.

Ecologist Jodi Hilty explains what conservationists have learned about linking critical habitat areas together.

March brings new books by E.O. Wilson and Frans de Waal, as well as important reads about wolves and primates.

A thriving population of servals at petrochemical plant suggests that even heavily industrialized sites can still be good places for conservation.

For manatees and other hard-to-spot species, the answer may lie in the minute particles of DNA they leave behind as they move through their environments.

Products marketed to kill rodents are instead threatening the lives of the wildlife that eat them as poisons travel up the food chain.

New genetic tests may reveal the secret to saving the critically endangered Siamese crocodile from extinction.

What border communities really need are solutions to address economic, health and climate problems — and the mesquite tree can help.