This $600-Million Room Contains the World's Largest Collection of These Tiny Endangered Animals
Inside a vault at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles lies a microscopic population of immense value—the repository for vernal pool fairy shrimp.
Inside a vault at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles lies a microscopic population of immense value—the repository for vernal pool fairy shrimp.
The country’s largest estuary is under critical threat from pollution and climate change. The question is: Can it be saved?
Lañilawal, a Patagonian cypress that may be one of the oldest trees on Earth, needs greater protection if scientists are to understand its secrets of survival, an environmental scientist says...
Afghanistan’s rare and majestic woodlands can’t shake the echoes of war, desperation and poverty
The Goldman Environmental Prize has announced its 2023 awards. Three winners speak about their efforts to protect wilderness and fight polluters
A single whale can lock up as much carbon as 1,000 trees. By turning them into carbon credits, a new project hopes to save the climate and the whales
Amid a warming world, these conservationists have brought back a very old and very low-tech drought-busting practice, and they are getting results.
A way of life nurtured for hundreds of years in the U.S. Southeast guards coastlines from climate change
Researchers worry the Colombian environmental ministry will side with animal-rights activists rather than curb the spread of invasive hippos once kept by drug-cartel leader Pablo Escobar...
Futuristic food science technology could finally bring plant-based salmon filets and tuna steaks to the table
A pair of studies raise concerns that the Amazon rain forest may be approaching a point of no return
The mountaineer Hilaree Nelson inspired people to care about the climate crisis
A visualization compares the forms of Earth’s largest flows of ice
Dental scanners could help researchers diagnose stressed-out baby corals
A river’s “gut” revived, snake-saving social media, an intragalactic donut, and more success stories of the year
More than one quarter of the more than 150,000 species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species are threatened with extinction
Negotiators have gathered in Montreal for a United Nations summit aimed at hammering out a Paris-style agreement to halt and reverse global biodiversity loss by 2030
For the sixth year in a row, nations failed to agree on any new marine protected areas in the fragile Southern Ocean around Antarctica
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says he’ll stop illegal destruction of rain forests allowed under former president Jair Bolsonaro. Will Brazilians support him?
Flying robots help researchers identify and protect threatened plants and other species in places that are inaccessible to humans
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