In the Congo Basin, habituating gorillas to the presence of humans helps the species survive, creates local job opportunities ...

Forty years ago, wood stork populations in Florida were plummeting. But federal and private efforts have made a dramatic ...

In 2006, Paul Ferraro and Subhrendu Pattanayak issued an urgent warning: conservation lacked the causal evidence needed to ...

Globally, more than one million species are threatened with extinction, but often interventions intended to protect biodiversity are not rooted in robust research. The field has an opportunity to ...

As part of efforts to avert the disappearance of crop diversity, which has continued to fade silently, the Crop Trust has announced the launch ...

The governor is proposing to exempt certain housing projects from the state's rigorous environmental review process.

Rare Asian elephant birth at Smithsonian's National Zoo marks first new calf in nearly 25 years, offering new hope for ...

Several conservation organizations have filed a lawsuit against the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) after they approved a controversial plan to construct a highway in a Southern Utah Conservation area ...

As an ambitious mainland predator eradication project reaches completion, what will it take to keep pests at bay long-term?

A world-renowned Chinese conservator and a Somerville conservation studio completed a complicated restoration of a Chinese ...

Two groups of nurse sharks living just 80 km apart are growing at wildly different speeds. And while the faster growth might look like good news, it could actually be a warning sign about how human ...