Editor's Note: "The Richest Reef" follows members of a scientific dive team as they attempt to pinpoint the center of the most biologically diverse marine ecosystem in the world...
How a small group of visionaries are trying to feed China—and save the world's oceans
Although they cover a fifth of Earth’s landmass, tropical grassy ecosystems are routinely misidentified and mismanaged
It took a quarter century, but the northern sea otters (Enhydra lutris kenyoni) living in Alaska’s Prince William Sound have finally recovered from the effects of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, according to a new report from the U.S...
Many wetland recovery programs have failed by trying to re-create the original ecosystems. Recent successes have focused on one or two limited goals and have let nature take it from there...
Better late than never? This week the International Union for Conservation of Natural Resources, which publishes the IUCN Red List of threatened species, listed the rare and iconic okapi (Okapia johnstoni) as endangered, something the organization acknowledges should have been done back in 2008...
Fish farms now produce million tons of fish each year around the globe. But octopuses have largely escaped this kind of confined aquaculturing, despite a growing global demand and overfishing...
With a body the size of a small child and a wingspan of up to two meters, the Blakiston’s fish owl (Bubo blakistoni) is the largest owl in the world.
There's nothing like the scientific thrill of discovering something for the very first time—or, in rare cases, rediscovering something that most people had presumed forever lost.
The world's growing appetite for cheap palm oil is destroying rain forests and amplifying climate change
Because of soil depletion, crops grown decades ago were much richer in vitamins and minerals than the varieties most of us get today
The "skunk bear" will now be a "candidate" for future protection
The Census of Marine Life's decadelong quest to take stock of sea life comes to a close with a slew of new species, population estimates and plenty of big unknowns
Destroying habitats makes viruses and other pathogens more likely to infect humans
Given a chance to regenerate, a razed forest in the Amazon can host almost as much life as a virgin one
By honing gas to liquid technology, scientists in Qatar are speeding clean-burning diesel to market, slashing the dangerous air pollution from diesel-burning trucks and buses worldwide.
