Science

Molecular and isotope analysis of scat can help researchers study elusive wild cats without disturbing, capturing or handling them.

Forget ‘Cocaine Bear’ and ‘Cocaine Shark.’ To really understand the environmental threat of illicit drugs, look to eels.

This summer a Tribal ceremony celebrated the return of sacred fish, lost for generations.

Improving the success of sexual reproduction is another tool for restoring the world’s coral reefs.

With salmon migration blocked by Shasta Dam, a Tribe and agency scientists collaborate to bring them home.

Volunteers flock to Key Largo to go underwater and help restore one of the world’s most important ecosystems.

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

Scientists “tromp out there into far-away places” to learn how to help recover three elusive, high-mountain predators: wolverines, Canada lynx and Cascade red foxes. 

We followed a wandering wolverine for weeks in the Arctic and found a frozen mystery.

How a study of so-called “trash birds” revealed conservation clues for urban species.