Extreme Field Work

Conservationists, government officials, and local community members are banding together to pull off a rescue of…

Thousands of feet below the ocean’s surface, boiling hot plumes of seawater shoot like geysers into the abyss.…

Spring is looming in the northern hemisphere. It is habitually a key and busy time for environmental science…

Less than 200 miles from the North Pole in the middle of the Arctic Ocean, the German icebreaker Polarstern sits…

If you were asked to list the skillset needed to work in orangutan conservation, you might not think to jot down…

News on endangered species is often not good. It comes with the territory. But every now and then there are success…

Most scientists’ labs don’t fly. Most scientists’ labs are also not packed in the interior of a DC-8 jet doing loopy…

How do you solve a problem like an invasion of feral cats?

If one thing’s clear from Jill Heinerth’s breathtaking new memoir on her life as a professional cave diver, it’s…

Tim Shields spends a lot of time in the Mojave Desert. Sometimes, he camps out there for weeks at a time. As a…

When geoscientist and mountaineer John All started studying the impacts of climate change on world’s highest…

This spring saw one of the worst tornado outbreaks in recent years. More than 300 twisters touched down from Texas…

Stef Bokhorst has spent a number of Christmases in the South Pole. He’s never come across Santa Claus, but he has…

A decent level of physical fitness, a fondness for climbing, an intimate knowledge of giant old-growth tree species,…

A dolphin post-mortem may not be everyone’s cup of tea. Many people have a soft spot for the highly intelligent…

Most people, if tasked with flying a helicopter over a Subantarctic island to complete a multimillion-dollar…

Edwin Scholes has taken dozens of bush plane flights, helicopters and boat trips, and spent countless hours hauling…

Life is hard for Ridgway’s hawks, a species found only in a small sliver of habitat on the Caribbean island of…

The solar panels stood tall against the icy expanse as the four-person team approached on snowmobile. GZ20 hadn’t…

Marine ecologist Leigh Torres has been documenting gray whales along the Oregon coast since 2015—watching them…