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.
Taking an inside look at the annual Seattle Aquarium Octopus Survey, where local divers help complete a census of the region's giant Pacific octopus.
A cloned aspen grove that's thrived for millennia is feeling the pressure of just 50 years of human activity.
Heightening the dam will increase the size of California's largest reservoir, but it could also create problems for local fish and wildlife populations.
Experts are hoping that new captive breeding programs, replacing harmful fishing practices, could help prevent future harm to coral reef ecosystems.
Phytoplankton are an essential part of the marine food chain. But according to new research, their numbers are dwindling.
A new study shows that good governance is critical for conservation success.
Black communities have long practiced core tenets of the lifestyle—yet are not well-represented among its most recognizable influencers.
Basically, by scaring the crap out of raccoons (but really we should let the bears do that).
New research highlight the dangers of standing by while large animals go extinct.
A study suggests that setting out bread crumbs and seeds mostly attracts invasive birds, perhaps at the expense of native species.
Community forest management gets put to the test, and it doesn't fare well.
Researchers in Mauritania propose protections for tiny mountain ponds as a way to re-think conservation. Their study, however, will likely attract some criticism.
Work with glued spiders and stressed grasshoppers shows how fear can transform an ecosystem even after death.
A new academic center at the University of Maryland promises to take undervalued research and synthesize it into answers for pressing environmental challenges.
In the first of a series of stories tracking their progress in real time, three scientists explain the genesis of a global effort to present the health of the world's oceans with a single number.
The environment is faltering even as measurements show human well-being is improving. How long can that last?
A conversation with penguin expert Grant Ballard on the short-term wins and long-term losses facing one of the world's most charismatic animals.
At the tail end of Baja California, our Kiri blogger learns the perils of attacking global environmental issues as if they exist alone.
Biologists seek to "do no harm," improve island health, get rid of human-introduced predators and untangle complex relationships that developed on the fly.
Economic models can illuminate the monetary value of beaches and mangroves, but if local people aren't engaged in conservation, market forces — and coastal ecosystems — may be dead in the water.
Despite the good intentions of the U.S. Forest Service setting aside "protected areas" isn't enough- housing growth in an near these areas can effectively diminish these forests and severely hamper the natural ecosystems.
Are The St. Joe Company's development plans for huge swaths of timberland in northwest Florida an environmentally sensitive 'New Ruralism' or a serious threat to irreplaceable ecosystems? Perhaps both.
