Bounding Toward RecoveryArticle 01.03.2023The Iberian lynx—one of the world’s most endangered cats—made a giant leap toward a comeback in just a few years, easing the way for other species to follow in its path.
Past the SaltArticle 07.14.2022In San Francisco’s salty South Bay, an ambitious wetlands restoration project is seeking to balance a return to the ecological past with the realities of a changing future.
Atonement in the KitchenArticle 06.03.2022One way to make sense of the senseless slaughter of roadkill? Salvage it for food.
The Gibbon’s TailArticle 10.14.2020For the world’s rarest ape, survival may depend on stories passed down for centuries among the people of its Chinese island home.
Protected by PrawnsVideo 03.17.2019Restoring native crustaceans along West Africa’s Senegal River may be a critical step in controlling one of the world’s deadliest tropical diseases.
Connecting—and Protecting—the DotsArticle 08.23.2017A new approach aims to help nature persist even as a city creeps outward.
The Shortfalls of BiodiversityOpinion 10.25.2016Meaningfully assessing the health and value of ecosystems requires far more than simply counting up all the species that live there.
Learning the Lessons of the PlanetOpinion 07.19.2016As we continue to recklessly degrade the global environment, and our society starts to feel the sobering consequences, we all need to step back and quickly learn—and live by—the lessons that our living world can teach us.
Remembering the Stories of NatureOpinion 05.17.2016Just when it’s more important than ever to appreciate and understand the wonders of nature, Big Science and mainstream Academia are turning their backs on the living world. It’s time we turn this around, and embrace the lessons that natural history can teach us.