Pakinam Amer: This is Scientific American’s Science Talk podcast. I’m Pakinam Amer. Today, we talk about endangered species and the complicated birth of the conservation and wildlife movement that we ...

A team of scientists is trying to jumpstart a global conservation movement, on par with efforts to save the rainforests or protect the oceans. But it might be even more ambitious because the target of ...

This story is part of Fix’s What’s Next Issue, which looks ahead to the ideas and innovations that will shape the climate conversation in 2022, and asks what it means to have hope now. Check out the ...

In Veracruz, the charismatic Mexican sheartail, one of the 58 hummingbird species in the country, is threatened by habitat loss due to deforestation for agriculture and urbanization. Chavarillo, an ...

Journalist Michelle Nijhuis crystallizes the human urgency around conservation in her new book, Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction. Despite its title, the book is anchored in ...

Historically, “conservation” simply meant not overhunting a game animal, preserving sufficient populations to continue to hunt the following year. Over time, however, conservationists have learned to ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Efforts to protect wildlife and landscapes have generally been shifting away from “fortress conservation” toward more inclusive approaches. Among ...

Mira Lloyd Dock helped launch a revolution. Speaking to Harrisburg’s business leaders in late 1900, the reformer and botanist showed images comparing the ugliness of Harrisburg, especially a ...

Florida’s official state mammal ranks among the world’s most at risk of dying out. Panthers have succumbed to disease, inbreeding, mercury poisoning and this year alone 21 have been listed by state ...