We asked conservation researchers around the world to send us their favorite papers of 2025. They address the planet’s most ...

Before ending the year, we wanted to highlight this eclectic assortment of reading gems we couldn’t fit into our earlier book ...

Proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act and park staffing cuts are putting the endangered coastal bird in danger.

Yet Trump and megacorporations are gambling with new nuclear reactors to supercharge artificial intelligence (and profits).

If spandrels remind us to look for unintended byproducts in organisms, the metaphor helps us analyze our own conservation ...

Forests, soil, plastic waste, war debris, and a darker ocean also appear on the annual ‘horizon scan’ addressing conservation ...

The global annual production of plastics rose to 400 million metric tons in 2022 and is projected to double by 2050. Many items produced are single-use, and less than 10% of plastic waste is recycled.

Earthjustice and NRDC recently issued a press release pointing out the “ anti-backsliding ” provision in the Safe Drinking Water Act, which should have prevented the EPA from weakening existing ...

Trump vs. Birds: Proposed Budget Eliminates Critical Research Programs Experts say there’s “no substitute” for the Bird Banding Laboratory or the Breeding Bird Survey, which help reveal the health and ...

Who Heals the Earth’s Healers? Ways to Avert Burnout for Environmental Advocates You’re helping nature — but nature also has ways to help you, make you more resilient, and relieve the stress caused by ...

‘Active Management’ Harms Forests — And It’s About to Get a Whole Lot Worse Forest management approaches promoted as “resilience,” “restoration,” “fuel reduction,” and “forest health” often degrade ...

The Bali myna once faced extinction from the illegal wildlife trade. An unusual approach may have helped save them.