Endangered Species

These beautiful ecosystems recently began to recover from overexploitation. Will Russia’s invasion once again push them over the brink?

The season brings important new books by climate scientists, conservationists, activists, and novelists.

Our culture has moved away from a fascination with the greenery around us. Experts warn that “plant blindness” could come with a cost.

Western science structures are embedded in a deeply rooted settler-colonial mindset. Indigenous traditional knowledge has the potential to overturn western systems destined for doom.

Journalists and activists should focus on these three linked problems, says the acclaimed author, who also encourages us to talk about hope.

…and other interesting new research that crossed our paths in the past few weeks, including a look at ecotourism land grabs.

As funding drops and institutions change, the study of plants appears to be withering on the vine. That’s letting critical skills go extinct.

Names matter. When we fear something, it becomes psychologically easier to withhold empathy for it or, worse, kill it. Nobody feels sorry for the devil.

Science says many types of animals can serve as “umbrella species.” But donors and the public pay the most attention to tigers, orangutans and other charismatic megafauna.

A single Franciscan manzanita plant nicknamed Francie, the last of its kind from the wild, charts an unlikely comeback in San Francisco.