According to Blom, whose group favors thinning dense stands of young trees and reducing accumulations of vegetation and woody debris from the forest floor through prescribed burns or mechanical methods, …
Haunting photos of hunger-stricken polar bears atop small melted ice caps are no longer the definitive climate change imagery. Instead, a report from the BBC suggests that more powerful visuals …
Open Planet, a free visual library, is making videos of nature free for non-commercial and non-profit use, all in an effort to help climate change efforts. Open Planet’s library has …
Camera traps in Malaysia have provided a rare glimpse into the country’s wildlife and conservation efforts, especially those surrounding extremely rare Malayan tigers. The tiger population in Malaysia has steadily …
This story originally appeared in Hakai and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Arah Narida leans over a microscope to gaze into a plastic petri dish containing a hood …
Three juvenile burrowing owls in the early morning, one stretching out its wings. Cape Coral, Florida, a city experiencing unprecedented growth. While great for their economy, the economic boom is …
Bioacoustics can’t fully replace ecology fieldwork, but can provide reams of data that would be extremely expensive to collect by merely sending scientists to remote areas for long stretches of …
Southern Europe is not so different. Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal never had collective farms, but the inexorable aging of their populations and the exodus of young people to cities …
A federal government decision to reverse course on issuing an emergency order for the northern spotted owl has angered the British Columbia First Nation that asked for the protection of …
This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Parasitic, elusive, and emitting an overwhelming odor of putrefying flesh, Rafflesia—often called the corpse flower—has …