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

Bearded vulture Investigation of human history includes many disciplines. Of these, ethnobiology -- the study of dynamic relationships...

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...

Nature Generation recommended book The third novel in the Legend Keepers eco-fiction trilogy has been recognized in three national book...

At an annual Al Smith dinner in New York City, then President George W. Bush joked that the crowd included his voting base, the "have...