Wetlands also provide many environmental services. Wetland areas help remove sediments and pollutants from surface waters and aid nutrient recycling within ecosystems. Wetlands capture and retain ...

For years, the Prairie Pothole Region has bothered me in a very specific way. On a map, it looks like a normal landscape: ...

Natural history museums contain an astonishing snapshot of the planet's biodiversity. Using this information to better ...

Relying on donor funding is not the right way to finance biodiversity conservation. Biodiversity is not a charitable cause. It is actually part of the sovereign natural assets, and so we need to look ...

The federally threatened plant commonly known as Tiny Tim was discovered in Oklahoma within the past few years. Now it’s on ...

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Deep in the humid rainforests of India’s Western Ghats lives a creature that looks more like a colorful digital glitch than an actual living animal. Formally known as Cilantica devamatha (previously ...

One of nature’s most impressive engineers is taking center stage this month in Blacksmith Fork Canyon. The Utah Division of ...

The state’s Coastal Commission and Coastal Conservancy also mark five decades since forming, entities that have helped shape ...

By Rhett Ayers Butler Conservation has long wrestled with a deceptively simple question: not whether to act, but where action will matter most. Forest restoration, protected areas, wildlife corridors, ...

Cape Cod is home to rare coastal plain ponds, long stretches of beach, wide salt marshes, and freshwater ponds. This group hopes to save it.

Scientists at the University of Florida have developed a rapid eDNA test that can detect invasive Asian swamp eels and ...