Conservation dogs, also known as detection dogs or conservation canines, are specially trained pups. Similar to other kinds of detection dogs, like those who sniff out bombs, drugs, or missing people, ...

Today is Earth Day, and NPR and the rest of the media are celebrating government and its environmental laws such as the Endangered Species Act and green energy transformations. Joe Biden will be ...

New research published in the June 3, 2022 journal Science reveals that 44% of Earth's land area—some 64 million square kilometers (24.7 million square miles) requires conservation to safeguard ...

To inspire the next generation of ocean advocates, the Edges of Earth team will spend the next two years traveling around the world to tell stories of the people and organizations working every day to ...

In a recent study, a team of researchers attempted to predict how the application of two global conservation ideas, Half-Earth and Whole Earth, would impact orangutan conservation on the island of ...

Maps reveal that key wildlife conservation areas in Vietnam overlap with regions still facing poverty and pressing social ...

A biodiversity crisis is reducing the variety of life on Earth. Under pressure from land and water pollution, development, overhunting, poaching, climate change and species invasions, approximately 1 ...

Half-Earth is a proposal by the late naturalist and “father of biodiversity”, EO Wilson. In its original context, it proposes that half of the Earth’s surface should be designated a human-free nature ...

Underground fungi may be one of Earth s most powerful and overlooked allies in the fight against climate change, yet most of them remain unknown to science. Known only by DNA, these "dark taxa" make ...

The Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation offers undergraduate students a chance to dive head-first into the world of conservation and discover possible career paths. Clark Farley is a graduating ...

“To summarize my view of where we are at the present time in the conservation movement…we are winning battles in a losing war,” famed biologist, naturalist, and writer Edward O. Wilson said in a phone ...

New research reveals that 44 percent of Earth's land area -- some 64 million square kilometers (24.7 million square miles) requires conservation to safeguard biodiversity. New research published in ...