Plants

Seven new environmental books offer practical advice, lessons from successful conservation projects and inspiration in troubled times.

California’s stressed blue oak woodlands abound with beauty and teem with uncertainty.

The cliff-growing Brighamia insignis was pronounced extinct in the wild in 2020, but it persists thanks to the hard work of botanical gardens and other collections.

This year scientists identified birds, lizards, orchids and other species that have been lost. How many more will follow?

The COVID-19 pandemic gave me a chance to put down my paper field guides and test my preconceptions about some popular digital tools.

Warming temperatures, stronger storms and rising seas present a cascade of challenges that researchers are racing to understand.

Are you angry about the extinction of the ivory-billed woodpecker and 22 other species? Good. Use it.

The new infrastructure bill would fund new habitat for pollinators — and help people and wildlife in the process.

Thor Hanson’s new book explains the biology behind climate change and why some species may be better able to survive a quickly changing planet.

If we are to successfully restore the natural world, we’ll need to focus on some of the smallest creatures in the ecosystem, says the author of the new book, Rebugging the Planet.