Gillnets in Lake Yellowstone: Can Conservationists Recover Cutthroat Trout in Our First National Park?

When lake trout arrived in Lake Yellowstone, it devastated a native fish and an ecosystem. On the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service, can a heroic effort set things right?

Matthew L. Miller and Kris Millgate

Migration in Motion: Visualizing Species Movements Due to Climate Change

Climate change is already forcing species to migrate to cooler climates, and Conservancy scientists are mapping these predicted migrations.

Justine E. Hausheer

For World Orangutan Day, An Ambitious Plan to Save These Great Apes

Bornean orangutans were recently declared critically endangered. Conservationists see this as a call to action to improve forest management.

Matthew L. Miller

Recovery: America’s Dwarf Fox Gets a Second Chance

Last week, three subspecies of the Channel Islands fox were delisted – the fastest mammal recovery under the Endangered Species Act. Ted Williams has the most in-depth coverage of this conservation milestone.

Ted Williams

Progress in the Search for Better Battery Tech

A new paper by Conservancy NatureNet Science Fellow Won-Hee Ryu may ultimately help scientists overcome one of the most intractable technological obstacles to wholesale adoption of clean energy.

Cara Cannon Byington

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

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

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

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

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

Scaling-Up Agricultural Planning for Conservation in the Brazilian Cerrado

Nature Conservancy scientists have found that landscape-scale impact mitigation in Brazil offers significant benefits for conservation, without adding substantial cost increases for commercial agricultural producers.

Justine E. Hausheer