Politicians have mocked, belittled, and cut federally funded research for decades, but funding basic science has a long history of lifesaving discoveries.

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

…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.

If a book contains critical conservation messages but nobody reads it, does it make a difference?

Environmentalists and journalists tend to describe beavers in the ways they benefit humans. It’s time to change that perception of nature.