The Secret Lives of Horseshoe Crabs

Every year, horseshoe crabs emerge from the depths for one reason and one reason only: sex.

Marah Hardt

Recovery: The Great Teddy Bear Rescue

The Louisiana black bear is the original Teddy Bear. It’s also an example of how an “endangered species train wreck” can turn into a conservation success.

Ted Williams

The Battles of Song Sparrows: How a Scientific Outsider Changed How We Study Birds

Margaret Morse Nice lacked a formal academic position but her work on the territoriality of song sparrows changed ornithology.

Joe Smith

Technology to the Rescue for Foresters in the Thick of It

Managing forests to remain resilient through wildfire, drought, and forest pests in a changing climate is complicated. New technology is helping forest managers to restore forests to a healthy mix of spatial diversity.

Lisa Feldkamp

Maintaining Healthy Forests Takes More than Planting Trees

Conservationists should plant more trees, but that’s not the whole story. America’s forests must be resilient to survive wildfires and invading forest pests in a changing climate.

Lisa Feldkamp

Feathers vs. Fins: Protecting Pelicans and the Trout They Eat

A protected bird that eats five pounds of fish a day. A declining and imperiled native fish population. How to balance pelicans and cutthroat trout?

Kris Millgate

New Research on the Remarkable Binge-Eating Bull Trout

Think you eat a lot on Thanksgiving? Meet a real champion binge eater: the bull trout.

Matthew L. Miller

Where to See 10 Impossibly Elusive Mammals

What mammal do you most want to see in the wild? You can see many cryptic creatures, if you know where to travel and look.

Matthew L. Miller

When Can Sustainability Drive Business Growth?

The next wave of corporate sustainability has a new mind-set. That mind-set sees products as potential solutions to environmental problems, not just creators of environmental problems.

Sheila Walsh Reddy

A Brief History of People Behaving Badly in Yellowstone

Attempted baby bison rescues. Tourists falling into geysers. Do people no longer know how to behave in national parks?

Annelise Eagleton

Searching for a Rare Nautilus, Round 2

Conservancy scientists (and one intrepid field reporter) take on a second search for the rare Allonautilus in the Solomon Islands. Success is contextual.

Justine E. Hausheer

7 Ways to Find Things to Do in Nature Near You (U.S. Edition)

Want to get outside and connect with nature, but don’t know where to start? Looking for something new close to home? Whether you're a newbie or a pro, our blogger has you covered.

Cara Cannon Byington