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, ...

With little progress in the Colorado River negotiations, some water experts are looking to a conservation program — featuring pools of invisible water and some accounting magic — as a possible path ...

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

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 ...

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

The State Board of Natural Resources approved a Trust Land Transfer March 3 to expand the Stavis Natural Resource Conservation Area in Kitsap County, one of the only extensive, mature, and old-growth ...

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

Most people who live in the Kansas City metropolitan area live in the Blue River watershed. It’s a 300-square-mile river ...

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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 ...

Paul Botts, president and executive director of the Wetland Initiative, walks across the ice on Feb. 2, 2026, at Indian Ridge Marsh Park on Chicago’s Far South Side. The wetlands, frozen in the winter ...