Conservation

Humans prey on more vertebrate species for use as pets and in medicine and other products than we do for food

Rainbow lorikeets are Australia’s most abundant native bird. What is paralyzing thousands of them every year?

The most comprehensive census yet of the hippos in Colombia that are descended from several imported by drug-cartel leader Pablo Escobar reveals that there could be twice as many of the invasive animals as previous estimates indicated

Hvaldi, a juvenile beluga whale likely used as a Russian spy, has become so accustomed to human interaction that he’s putting himself in danger and urgently needs our help

Efforts to eradicate invasive rats that have decimated native species on islands around the world are beginning to bear fruit

Vernal pools are safe havens for creatures such as fairy shrimp, and they have lived through the end of the dinosaurs, the breakup of Pangaea and multiple ice ages. But humans are paving them over.

A new program looks to replant warm weather trees in northern Minnesota to help them adjust to a rapidly warming world

Inside a vault at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles lies a microscopic population of immense value—the repository for vernal pool fairy shrimp.

The country’s largest estuary is under critical threat from pollution and climate change. The question is: Can it be saved?

Lañilawal, a Patagonian cypress that may be one of the oldest trees on Earth, needs greater protection if scientists are to understand its secrets of survival, an environmental scientist says

Bird-strike-deterrent window films don’t work if they’re placed on the indoor side

Afghanistan’s rare and majestic woodlands can’t shake the echoes of war, desperation and poverty