Conservation

This striking insect just gained Endangered Species Act protection, but its habitat is still disappearing.

What persuades people to help protect threatened species and ecosystems? Most scientists think facts alone will change minds. They’re wrong.

Industrial waste from a mill is leaching into the groundwater and polluting the Clark Fork River. A major flood could cause an even bigger catastrophe.

Scientists “tromp out there into far-away places” to learn how to help recover three elusive, high-mountain predators: wolverines, Canada lynx and Cascade red foxes. 

New international agreements are a step in the right direction, but the real work to ensure robust and equitable protections is just beginning. 

What a new paper can teach us about hope amidst the extinction crisis.

We followed a wandering wolverine for weeks in the Arctic and found a frozen mystery.

These endangered zebras have experienced one of the most substantial range reductions of any African mammal.

How a study of so-called “trash birds” revealed conservation clues for urban species.

…and it did a halfway decent job. But algorithms alone can’t save endangered species. For that you need people who care and who act.