Why Are Loons Still Dying from Lead Poisoning?
In the United States, efforts to save a beloved species face pushback from a surprising foe: gun rights advocates.
When Squirrels Meet the Delmar Divide 01.15.2026 News - Segregation in St. Louis, Missouri, is shaping the genetics of the city’s eastern gray squirrels. 
Is it Too Soon to Whoop for Whooping Cranes? 01.14.2026 Article - Conservationists managed to save North America’s whooping cranes from extinction once, but the birds now face mounting threats in their winter habitat along the coast of Texas. 
Pachyderm Pharmacies 01.08.2026 News - Scientists find that elephants who raid farms might be looking for medicinal plants, sparking a cross-species exchange of pharmaceutical knowledge. 
Sticking the Landing 12.19.2025 Spotlight - Tree and torrent frogs defy gravity with complicated toes. 
American Kestrels put the Cherry on Top 12.17.2025 News - The diminutive falcons keep pests and poop away from one of Michigan's prized crops. 
Mercury Rising 12.12.2025 News - When Alaska’s wolves began eating sea otters, it looked like a story of adaptation. Then they started getting sick. 
Pelagic Pack Animals 12.10.2025 Spotlight - Gelatinous salps shuttle tiny creatures and excess carbon into the deep. 
Charting a Course Through Bears’ Eyes 12.04.2025 News - In British Columbia, stewards from the Heiltsuk First Nation are using computational models and Indigenous knowledge to protect bears’ access to salmon. 
Colorado Has Wolves Again for the First Time in 80 Years. Why Are They Dying? 12.03.2025 News - A controversial reintroduction program is off to a messy start. 
The Collateral Damage of Climate Migration 11.20.2025 News - As the planet warms, people are moving—bringing familiar fights to new battlegrounds. 
The Snowshoe Effect 11.18.2025 Spotlight - The Svalbard rock ptarmigan, Earth’s northernmost land bird, is finely tuned for winter survival. 
Life Finds a Way, Even on Inactive Hydrothermal Vents 11.14.2025 News - In the darkness of the deep sea, animals flourish on hydrothermal vents that have gone cold. 
The Comeback Croc 11.10.2025 Article - American crocodiles are booming in Florida, thanks to a little help from a nuclear power plant. 
Critical Minerals? There’s a Plant for That 11.06.2025 News - Could phytomining—using plants to pull metal out of the soil—put the green in “green transition”? 
Investigating a Treetop Baby Boom 11.05.2025 Article - Why a sudden spike in pregnancies in one Madagascan lemur population might actually be a bad sign for the species. 
Love the Habitat You’re With 10.31.2025 Article - Locals in Tucson, Arizona are applying “reconciliation ecology” techniques to rehabilitate the region’s degraded landscapes and waterways. 
The Wild Elephant in the Room 10.29.2025 Article - Conservationists seeking to restore elephant populations in a Malawian national park inadvertently upended human lives, revealing the risks of large-mammal translocations. 
These Fish Can Adjust to Heatwaves—And Pass the Resilience on to Their Offspring 10.15.2025 News - Though scientists aren’t quite sure how they do it, three-spined sticklebacks show an unexpected fortitude in the face of repeated heatwaves. 
The Beauty—and the Beasts—of Coexistence 10.14.2025 Article - In the mountains of Italy, local people are adapting to life with a growing number of brown bears, wolves, and other fairy tale predators. 
As the World Becomes Drab, Butterflies Follow 10.09.2025 News - With monocultures increasingly replacing diverse forests in the tropics, brilliance has become a burden. 
Lens of Time: Witch Hazels Take Flight 10.08.2025 Video - Investigating the mechanics of seed dispersal in an unusual shrub in eastern North America has revealed that some plants have powers of propulsion equal to the planet’s fastest animals. 
Glowing from Within 10.02.2025 Spotlight - With more scientists and artists turning their attention to bioluminescence, new information about glowing fungi is coming to light. 
Canis familiaris? Maybe Less Than You Think 10.01.2025 News - We think of them as pets, but the vast majority of the world’s dogs live free-range in the environment. Understanding them could be key to helping urban wildlife thrive. 
To Catch a Killer Shark 09.19.2025 News - Using DNA analysis, scientists linked the same shark to two bites on people. Now, they want to use the work to save other sharks' lives. 
All the Life We Cannot See 09.18.2025 Article - As scientists continue their search for undescribed species, they’re revealing how little we know about life on our planet. 
Ibis on the Move 09.12.2025 News - As tropical birds flee their overheating homes, biologists worry for the imperiled species they might displace. 
Banking on Pollen 09.09.2025 Article - When seed saving doesn’t work, pollen may be the answer to preserving botanical heritage. 
Triaging the Global Wildlife Trade 09.05.2025 News - Can we take a more systematic approach to protecting endangered species from international trade? 
Where Art Thou, Little Songbird? 09.04.2025 News - Collaboration and technology are helping scientists solve migratory mysteries. 
Go North, Young Turtle 09.02.2025 Article - As eastern Pacific green sea turtles were being slaughtered in much of their range, an intrepid group of turtles pushed north into uncharted waters. 
A Scaredy-Cat Won’t Hunt 08.29.2025 News - To protect imperiled birds, these ecologists are working to put the fear back in New Zealand’s cats. 
Tricks of the Trunk 08.28.2025 Spotlight - With their dexterous trunks, bush elephants satisfy their enormous appetites and transform the landscape. 
Aardvark Burrows Could be Ground Zero for the Next Pandemic 08.22.2025 News - Animals of all kinds mix and mingle in underground burrows, offering troubling opportunities for diseases to jump species. 
Seeing the Fungi for the Trees 08.14.2025 News - Mycorrhizal fungi help plants thrive, and sequester a lot of carbon. But a new atlas shows these climate warriors need urgent protection. 
Plight of the Bumblebees 08.12.2025 Article - A journey into the wild and not-so-wild world of bumblebees and the unintended consequences of domestication. 
Better Living Through Biochemistry 08.07.2025 News - Scientists are creating custom microbiomes to clean up microplastics, restore trashed agricultural soil, and solve other environmental problems. 
