Last month, Tammy Russell—judging by her reaction—had the most exciting experience of her life. “I collapsed with relief, joy, and tears,” the Scripps Institution of Oceanography marine ecologist ...

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife estimates 14.5 million wild vertebrate animals are killed on Oregon’s roadways each year. Data shows it’s difficult to control driver behavior with things ...

Emily Wanderer receives funding from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and the National Science Foundation. When a grizzly bear attacked a group of fourth- and fifth-graders in ...

In the past, I’ve often used my New Year’s column to summarize the state of broadcasting and highlight last year’s developments and I what I expect to happen this year. I don’t have much to add to ...

A gorgeous Pokémon book that dives into the fictional ecology of pocket monsters is getting a release outside of Japan in 2026. The Pokémon Company announced this week that Pokécology: An Illustrated ...

For ecologists, the Covid-19 pandemic has presented a remarkable natural experiment in what can happen to wild animals when humans stay home. By Emily Anthes About two decades ago, the dark-eyed junco ...

In 2014, Paul Kingsnorth was sunk in doubt. He was forty-one and had been on the green movement’s front lines since the nineteen-nineties—working for Greenpeace and EarthAction, chaining himself to a ...

‘It was so rewarding to share what I was seeing with others,” Mark Lindberg said about his move into professional photography. “It really excited me to be able to do that. But boy, it’s a steep ...

Plant ecologists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign say prairie ecosystems are much more diverse than many people realize. Assistant professor in natural resources and environmental ...

Mark Harmon crouches low next to log number 219: a moss-covered western hemlock tree trunk, five meters long, lying dead on the ground in the lush green woods. It’s marked by a thin aluminum tag. The ...

Marc Stalmans, who died on August 30th at 66, was central to Gorongosa National Park’s transformation from a war-ravaged landscape to a thriving ecosystem. As science director from 2012, he guided ...

Chris Buelow navigates his pickup truck down a wooded, gravel road 70 miles west of Boston. As he crests over a hill, the forest gives way to a valley of shrubs, dotted with pine and oak trees: the ...