Can technology help solve environmental problems facing our planet? Sometimes. And sometimes those solutions come from the youngest among us. This inspiring article in Smithsonian magazine about two teenagers in Portugal is bound to lift your spirits. Not only because of the utility of the invention they developed, but because at such a young age they did this. Since the early 2000s, Portugal has lost over half of its forest cover, triggering erosion, water l

Dead elephant seals Do you know what's happening to plant and animal species that Indigenous peoples rely on in Amazonia? How about Siberian tigers in the taiga? Or the miniscule Macaya breast-spot frog of Haiti? Because there are so many consequential environmental and conservation issues, taking in the full scope of the challenges facing nature can feel overwhelming to me. But if we don't know about them, we won't care. And if we don't care, we aren't spurred to a

Congress has begun nullifying resource management plans that were developed and implemented to guide long-term stewardship of federal lands. Plans cooperatively developed by the federal Bureau of Land Management in Montana, North Dakota, and Alaska -- in consultation with scientists, conservation groups, indigenous peoples, industry, and other users of these tracts of federal lands -- are the first on the chopping block. These Resource Management Plans (RMPs) provide stabil

The Trump administration seeks to weaken conservation by rescinding a rule that governs public land use. The Conservation and Landscape...

The undammed Klamath In a previous  pos t on April 15, 2024, I shared a story about removal of four dams on California and Oregon's...

Honeybee In one of the world's hot spots of bee biodiversity, scientists are finding that one species overwhelms total numbers of all...

New spider discovered Okay, you arachnophobes, prepare to be freaked out. An article in Smithsonian magazine reports on a new...

Highway underpass for wildlife I spent 4 days last week engaged in a favorite pastime -- fly fishing for trout. But fishing isn't what I...

Aldabra tortoise It's easy to become overwhelmed by the distressing news coming from Washington, D.C. day after day. And in a recent...

North American endangered species This proposal "threatens a half-century of progress in protecting and restoring endangered species," is...

Life on the Rocks cover Next month I'll be doing a series of speaking events about wilderness-obligate species of wildlife with a focus...

Biodiversity in our hands "Climate change is a primary driver of biodiversity loss. And climate change depends on biodiversity as part...

A blob-headed fish from Peru No one knows how many species of life inhabit the Earth, but estimates range from 9 to 10 million, not...

Leopard atop a termite mound This is somewhat far afield from my usual posts, but having visited African countries several times,...

Besides a healthful pursuit that connects us to nature, bird watching is also an economic driver. Some 96 million Americans are birders,...

Researchers investigating the status of 114 species of butterflies in the United States found that populations are declining at a rate of...

Nature comes in all shapes and sizes. Vertebrates, for example, range from the 100-ton blue whale to this tiny, tiny flee toad newly...

Two months ago, the final book in the Legend Keepers trilogy was released. For those of you unfamiliar with this series, I wrote these...

If you love birds and the places they live then this short film , Birds of the World, is for you.

Newly published research in Science predicts that by 2070 almost half of Earth's land surface will experience increases in spatial...