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Floral Arrangement: Can Floating Flower Mats Reduce Nutrient Pollution?

Floating flowers have the power to clean nutrient-loaded runoff in South Florida.

Kris Millgate

Saving Dixie: 24 Hours Caring for a Wallaby Joey

Writer Justine Hausheer spends 24 hours caring for an orphaned wallaby.

Justine E. Hausheer

Why Are Amphibians the Most Endangered Class of Animals?

More than 40% of the planet’s toads, frogs, salamanders and caecilians face extinction, but many can still be saved.

Christine Peterson

Mapping the World’s Groundwater-Dependent Ecosystems Reveals Protection Gaps

A first-of-its-kind global map shows 53% of groundwater-dependent ecosystems are in areas of known groundwater depletion, and likely at risk.

Cara Cannon Byington

Story type: TNC Science Brief

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Meet the World’s Largest Freshwater Crayfish

National Geographic Society & TNC extern Zoe Starke shares her experience studying the 13-pound Tasmanian giant crayfish.

Zoe Starke

7 Strange Species from the Ocean’s Depths

Matthew L. Miller, Justine E. Hausheer, and Cara Cannon Byington

Meet the Amazing Giant Rats of Oceania

Justine E. Hausheer

Did You Know Sandhill Cranes Dye Their Feathers?

Matthew L. Miller and Chris Helzer

The Search for America’s Tiniest Turtles

Jenny Rogers

Conservation Science

Mapping the World’s Groundwater-Dependent Ecosystems Reveals Protection Gaps

A first-of-its-kind global map shows 53% of groundwater-dependent ecosystems are in areas of known groundwater depletion, and likely at risk.

Cara Cannon Byington

Story type: TNC Science Brief

Restoring River Oxbows Benefits Endangered Fish

Matthew L. Miller

Want to Suppress Coral Disease? Bring Back Sea Cucumbers

Cara Cannon Byington

Story type: TNC Science Brief

Meet Lizzie McLeod, TNC’s Global Oceans Director

Matthew L. Miller

Earlier Springs Cause Problems for Birds

Christine Peterson

The Disturbingly Long Tapeworms of Alaskan Bears

What’s that trailing from the bear? (It's not the cute cub)…It's an overlooked (and gross) creature of salmon ecosystems.

Matthew L. Miller

What’s That Weird Noise in the Night?

Justine E. Hausheer, Cara Cannon Byington, and Matthew L. Miller

A Field Guide to Commonly Misidentified Snakes

David A. Steen

Beaver? Otter? Muskrat? A Field Guide to Freshwater Mammals

Matthew L. Miller

Weird and Unbelievable Facts About Earwigs

Matthew L. Miller

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