These 10 books celebrate and educate us about Earth’s most fascinating gift to humans and wildlife.

Cartoonist Tiffany Everett’s new book encourages readers to explore new places, keep journals about what they encounter, and think like scientists.

Even as scientists rush to identify the migratory paths of some endangered shark species to help better protect them, climate change and other threats shift this behavior, adding urgency to the research.

These new books showcase moments where embracing nature led to personal discoveries or scientific breakthroughs.

Plant repositories provide crucial links between plants, botanists, and the rest of us. But their already-shrinking budgets face new threats from the Trump administration.

A potential titanium mine threatened the famous swamp — until activists and local journalists stepped in.

A two-year effort by hundreds of science and conservation experts from 158 countries reveals the latest shark conservation statistics, while providing insight into the process to protect large groups of species.

The emerging science of social biomimicry still places too much value on human constructs. There are ways around that.

This is how hedgehogs coexist with us in the urban environment. Their time is when most of us are sleeping; their place is in the gaps and disregarded spaces of our busy city lives.

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