On Thursday, the National Wildlife Federation, the American Fisheries Society, and The Wildlife Society released a…

North Atlantic right whales are living the plot of a science fiction story: They are not having any babies. With the…

The fact that snow is white seems like a pretty basic truth. But over the weekend in parts of eastern Europe, the…

You could be excused for believing there’s no new ground for Starbucks to break in the U.S. The Seattle-based coffee…

For grizzly bears, leaving national park boundaries could soon be a life-or-death decision.

It’s not often conservationists celebrate the mass killing of animals, but managing our relationship with nature…

Washington, D.C. is famous for its cherry blossoms, but someday it could also be renowned for its palm trees. That’s…

Death did not sneak up on Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, who was put to sleep on Monday after a…

The Western Governors’ Association published its first-ever list of the 50 worst invasive species inhabiting that…

Stephen Hawking, renowned theoretical physicist and one of the brightest scientific minds of the last half century, d…

Last year was a very bad year for wildfire damage across the U.S., and it’s only going to get worse. One way to…

The Afsluitdijk is a 20-mile dam that has been protecting the low-lying Netherlands from the force of the ocean for…

There’s a new trend sweeping the nation—the world actually—and it’s called plogging. No, not blogging on platforms…

Only in Japan would the solution to an ecological problem involve a robotic wolf. But when that problem is the…

Illegal wildlife trafficking tends to evoke images of harshly lit ports and dingy warehouses, but in reality a lot…

It’s not often you celebrate going to court, but 21 kids are doing just that after a federal appeals court rejected…

Fleeing the sweltering, cement jungles of many urban centers during the dog days of summer is going to become even…

The health of the world’s last male northern white rhino, Sudan, is rapidly declining, bringing the subspecies’…

Beetles that depend on dead or decaying wood, often with weighty frames and photogenic jaws—called saproxylic…

Washington state just came within a few votes of passing the first statewide carbon tax in the country, a near…