Tag: Wildlife
Biden restores roadless protection to the Tongass, North America’s largest rainforest
Beverly Law, Oregon State University
Ask people to find the world’s rainforests on a globe, and most will probably...
Arctic Report Card 2022: The Arctic is getting rainier and seasons...
Matthew L. Druckenmiller, University of Colorado Boulder; Rick Thoman, University of Alaska Fairbanks, and Twila Moon, University of Colorado Boulder
Weasels, not pandas, should be the poster animal for biodiversity loss
David Jachowski, Clemson University
At the United Nations biodiversity conference that opens in Montreal on Dec. 7, 2022, nations...
Protecting 30% of Earth’s surface for nature means thinking about connections...
Veronica Frans, Michigan State University and Jianguo "Jack" Liu, Michigan State University
A biodiversity crisis is reducing the variety...
Olive ridley sea turtles are constantly on the move, so protective...
Pamela T. Plotkin, Texas A&M University and Joseph Bernardo, Texas A&M University
Many of the ocean’s most charismatic animals...
By fact-checking Thoreau’s observations at Walden Pond, we showed how old...
Tara K. Miller, Boston University; Abe Miller-Rushing, National Park Service, and Richard B. Primack, Boston University
Henry David Thoreau,...
What is a wetland? An ecologist explains
Jon Sweetman, Penn State
Wetlands are areas of land that are covered by water, or have flooded or waterlogged...
Coyotes are here to stay in North American cities – here’s...
David Drake, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Bret Shaw, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Mary Magnuson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Coyotes have become...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
