Conservation

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

Wildfire expert and Arizona State University professor Stephen Pyne answers five burning questions.

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.

Two dams removed from Washington’s Elwha River were branded as salmon-restoration projects, but their watershed and scientific impacts are just as significant.

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

Climate change may threaten the trees grown in inland cities. Adapting to that threat may help us protect city residents and mitigate future warming.

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

A new study finds that large, charismatic species get the majority of research into felid and canid species, possibly at the expense of others.

We understand that insects have both intrinsic value and instrumental value, but even that binary approach falls short.

A new study — the first of its kind — finds that the world’s conservation areas fail to protect hundreds of rare cactus species.