Ben Goldfarb, an independent environmental journalist, editor, and award-winning fiction writer who covers marine science and wildlife conservation, is the author of Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter.
More than 400 dams are currently proposed for Central America's rivers, but thanks largely to a feisty indigenous resistance—as well as a non-profit—they are still yet to be built.
On the frontlines of extinction in the Gulf of California, where the vaquita faces its final days.
As beluga sturgeon populations dwindle, poachers have descended on the waters of Oklahoma, searching for the source of next-best caviar: the paddlefish. But conservation officials might have found a way to save the prehistoric-looking creatures from a steady decline—they're selling the caviar themselves.
