Conservation

Scientist Gleb Raygorodetsky explores the millennia-old relationships between indigenous communities and their local ecosystems, and how they can help us adapt to an uncertain future.

The disappearance of a tiny oceanic parasite, researchers warn, indicates that overfishing has caused an ecosystem to fall out of balance.

After decades of stresses, the lesser prairie-chicken faces a brand-new threat: Oklahoma’s wind farms.

This month brings us new books about wildlife trafficking, pesticides and the history of the oceans.

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The quest for Bigfoot and other “hidden species” can actually aid real-world species.

Wolves and polar bears are great, but so are bats, fish, plants and invertebrates (among others worthy of our attention).

Since it first turned up in 2007, white-nose syndrome has killed millions of bats — and it’s not done yet.

Highly trained military dolphins have been dispatched to round up the last 30 vaquita porpoises and (hopefully) save the species from extinction.

They may not be the most charismatic group of species, but we can learn a lot from the lowly snail.