Voracious demand for fish oil and guano puts the squeeze on shrinking populations of Humboldt penguins in Peru.

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

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

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Our latest group of reviews showcases books that remind us about what we’re saving — and why we do it.

For decades I observed the paradox. The landscape around the coastal North Carolina home where my parents retired was being developed at a rate that I have never seen anywhere. Yet right across a ...

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

New research proposes classifying the threatened tree as an “umbrella species” because of its oversized ecological role.