The Other Tannenbaum: Cutting an Alternative Christmas Tree

Kris Millage shares her experience cutting a wild juniper as a Christmas tree.

Kris Millgate

Coconut Palms Dominate Over Half of Pacific Atoll Forests

First study of its kind shows that decades of coconut palm agriculture have led to deforestation on over 80 percent of Pacific atolls, and coconut palms now cover more than half of the atolls' forested areas.

Cara Cannon Byington

Story type: TNC Science Brief

Photographing Water for the One of the World’s Driest Cities

A photographer captions the merging of modern science and ancient wisdom in the Peruvian Andes

Jenny Rogers

Fish Aggregating Devices Could Enhance the Effectiveness of Blue Water Marine Protected Areas

Research from TNC’s Palmyra Atoll suggests fish aggregating devices could increase the time mobile species spend within blue water MPAs.

Cara Cannon Byington

Story type: TNC Science Brief

How to Catch a Wild dFAD

A small boat, four people, 500 pounds (or more) of rope, netting, floats, rafts and sometimes barnacles. Gloves definitely required.

Cara Cannon Byington

A Roadmap for Reducing the Climate Impacts of U.S. Beef

Adoption of selected actions, especially around grazing, could reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the U.S. beef industry by up to 30%.

Cara Cannon Byington

Story type: TNC Science Brief

To Save Pacific Turtles, Focus on Small-Scale Fisheries

Small-scale fisheries cause significantly greater mortality to Solomon Islands turtles than longliners.

Justine E. Hausheer

Story type: TNC Science Brief

Caught on Camera: the Long-Nosed Chilean Shrew Opossum

Camera traps in the Valdivian Coastal Reserve document an increase in sites where one of Chile's least-known marsupials is known to live.

Cara Cannon Byington

Story type: TNC Science Brief

Meet the Mysterious Long-Nosed Chilean Shrew Opossum

Spoiler alert: it's not a shrew. It's a relict marsupial, and has lived in the forests of Chile's Valdivian Coast for millennia.

Cara Cannon Byington

Blue Mussels & Water Pollution: Protecting Wales’s River Conwy

TNC & National Geographic Society extern Evy Mansat Gros shares her experience studying blue mussels & water pollution in Wales.

Evy Mansat Gros

Cutthroats and Cottonwoods: Protecting the South Fork of the Snake

On a family boat trip down Idaho's South Fork River, writer Kris Millgate explores TNC's role protecting this river ecosystem.

Kris Millgate

Bringing Beavers Back to Britain

Nature Conservancy & National Geographic Society extern Eleanor Salisbury shares her experience studying how reintroducing beavers to the U.K. can benefit both nature and people.

Eleanor Salisbury