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Guatemala tightens cattle ranching rules, but can they stop deforestation?

Maxwell Radwin 15 Oct 2021

Forest biomass-burning supply chain is producing major carbon emissions: Studies

Justin Catanoso 15 Oct 2021
The aquatic life of the San Pedro Mártir River in Tabasco, Mexico, finds refuge in the submerged roots of the red mangrove forests. Image by Octavio Aburto.

Inland mangroves reveal a tumultuous climatic past — and hint at our future

John Cannon 14 Oct 2021

Environmental defenders in Nicaragua denounce government crackdown as elections loom

Maxwell Radwin 13 Oct 2021
Myrna Cunningham

For some Indigenous, COVID presents possibility of cultural extinction, says Myrna Cunningham

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Oct 2021

Keep polar bears and their extensive range safe from oil drilling (Commentary)

Steve Blackledge, Dyani Chapman 8 Oct 2021

Deep seabed mining is risky. If something goes wrong, who will pay for it?

Ian Morse 8 Oct 2021

Empowering Indigenous youths with tradition and tech: Q&A with Dawn Martin-Hill

Caitlin Looby 8 Oct 2021

Can we save the bees? Absolutely. Let’s start with the native species (commentary)

Krystle Hickman 7 Oct 2021

Two threatened whale groups had a mini baby boom, but not because of lockdown

Laurel Neme 5 Oct 2021

‘Antithetical to science’: When deep-sea research meets mining interests

Elham Shirin 4 Oct 2021

Oil pipeline on Native lands ramps up as Canada honors its Indigenous people

Latoya Abulu 30 Sep 2021

For Costa Rica’s Indigenous Bribri women, agroforestry is an act of resistance and resilience

Monica Pelliccia 29 Sep 2021

When North America locked down, birds filled the gap left by people

Malavika Vyawahare 28 Sep 2021
Endangered black-footed ferrets (Mustela nigripes). Image courtesy of Kimberly Fraser/USFWS.

Black-footed ferrets riding out COVID-19 with a vaccine and a lot of TLC

Rachel Fritts 27 Sep 2021

Bridge the North-South divide for a UN Biodiversity Framework that is more just (commentary)

Subhankar Banerjee 23 Sep 2021

Novel chemical entities: Are we sleepwalking through a planetary boundary?

Claire Asher 23 Sep 2021

New checklist aims to tackle racism in conservation science in higher ed

Caitlin Looby 22 Sep 2021
A farmer uses a manure spreader as a natural fertilizer. An excess of manure from livestock produces an excess of ammonia, a harmful nitrogen emission. Image by CityofGeneva via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Nitrogen: The environmental crisis you haven’t heard of yet

Ashoka Mukpo 22 Sep 2021
California condor flying

Thanks to the Yurok Tribe, condors will return to the Pacific Northwest

Rachel Fritts 21 Sep 2021

Extinction of Indigenous languages leads to loss of exclusive knowledge about medicinal plants

Sibélia Zanon 20 Sep 2021

Sea turtles: Can these great marine migrators navigate rising human threats?

Elizabeth Devitt 20 Sep 2021

Mycoremediation brings the fungi to waste disposal and ecosystem restoration

Carly Nairn 15 Sep 2021
Western spotted skunk (Spilogale gracilis). Image by Robby Heischman courtesy of the Field Museum.

Pepé Le New: Meet the acrobatic spotted skunks of North America

Liz Kimbrough 15 Sep 2021

When COVID shut Broadway, award-winning actress Jane Alexander went birding

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Sep 2021

Manatee deaths in Florida point to a global decline in seagrass ecosystems

Claudia Geib 6 Sep 2021

Is it time to rethink jaguar recovery in the U.S.? (commentary)

Robert Peters, Sharon Wilcox 3 Sep 2021

Will ‘ropeless’ fishing gear be seaworthy in time to save endangered whales?

John Cannon 2 Sep 2021

North American paper industry merger sets off environmental alarms

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Sep 2021
Old growth trees in Olympic National Park. Image courtesy of Matt Shiffler Photography via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Old-growth forests of Pacific Northwest could be key to climate action

Justin Catanoso 1 Sep 2021

What sets crab-eating raccoons apart from other carnivores? | Candid Animal Cam

Romina Castagnino 27 Aug 2021
Cow in Colombia. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Though nefarious, Russian hack of JBS should prompt environmental debate over meat “oligopoly” (commentary)

Nikolas Kozloff 25 Aug 2021

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