This excerpt from the new book The Earth Said Remember Me looks at the shifting baselines around the United States’ national ...

The driver of zoonotic outbreaks isn’t bad luck. It’s habitat destruction, wildlife trade, and decades of ignoring science.

Diving on coastal reefs can bring us closer to nature and inspire conservation, but there are steps every ecotourist can take ...

Activists raise serious concerns about the welfare of the country’s captive elephants and the laundering of wild-caught ...

Most species on the brink of extinction are on the Endangered Species list because there is almost no place left for them to ...

I’m lucky to live immediately adjacent to Point Reyes National Seashore in California and make frequent visits to indulge my photography hobby. In the summer I can work a full day and still search for ...

America’s 250th Should Tell the Full Story, Not Rewrite It As the Trump administration censors history on parks and public lands — a move out of the autocrats’ playbook — people have six ways to honor ...

Migration increases the survival of ungulates like mule deer and caribou, but changing landscapes are hampering their movements — and their future.

America 250: Echoes of the Buy-Centennial Fifty years ago the United States ‘celebrated’ our nation’s founding with red, white, and blue junk from sea to shining sea. As the Semiquincentennial looms, ...

Smuggled Alive: Turtles and Tortoises Trafficked Across the Mexico-U.S. Border A look inside the illegal turtle and tortoise trade operating through the world’s busiest land border crossing — and the ...

What whale are we talking about this month? Thanks for asking. This time we’re looking at Rice’s whale (Balaenoptera ricei), also sometimes referred to as the Gulf of Mexico w ...

Fifty years ago the United States ‘celebrated’ our nation’s founding with red, white, and blue junk from sea to shining sea. As the Semiquincentennial looms, we still haven’t learned our lesson.