Scientists pinpoint poaching hotspots, but authorities aren’t always eager to join the fight.

Swathes of the Amazon rainforest are set aside for Indigenous peoples to manage. While they aren't conservation areas, they are important to the ecosystem.

Dr. Ruth Gates worked tirelessly to conserve coral reefs, promoting a controversial idea called assisted evolution.

In the Caribbean, sargassum deposits have grown to unprecedented sizes, obscuring the sand and turning nearshore waters into seething sargassum soup.

A robot disguised as a crocodile is helping scientists understand that mass fish die-offs serve a purpose.

Songbirds may loose their entire broods to cuckoos’ parasitic tricks.

As conservation efforts succeed, wolves, leopards, alligators, and other predators colonize new lands.

The Anthropocene requires a new history to explain how humans transform the planet. The work of poet John Clare is a good place to start.

Extinct in the wild, the Franklinia tree is still cultivated in botanical gardens, private homes, parks, even cemeteries. It's also got an interesting Revolutionary-era backstory.

When an axolotl loses a limb, it regrows, and nary a scar remains. But this incredible creature is on the brink of extinction.