All Wildlife
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Humor helps a rare bird survive in Cambodia
Conservationists’ gentle engagement with locals boosts the prospects for the Bengal Florican.
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A lab in Florida acts as a real-life CSI show ... for manatees
Martine de Wit leads a team of forensic pathologists that performs autopsies on the endangered creatures to determine their cause of death.
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Sumatran orangutans study for nature's pass/perish entrance exam
The best students are the wildest. Lesson 1: Avoid humans at all costs.
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Beneath Arctic ice pack, teeming life holds extraterrestrial clues
Microscopic organisms thrive in polar-ice 'brine channels' whose conditions mirror some of those found in space.
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Fishermen hit hard by closure of West Coast salmon fishing
Drastic federal action to try to save chinook salmon is latest move in ongoing battle.
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Western ranchers fight for a new deal on wilderness
The Owyhee plan would designate 517,000 Idaho acres as federal wilderness and put other public land up for sale.
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Costa Rica sees tourism's environmental dark side
Lax regulations have allowed development to surge to the breaking point.
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Wolf tracking in Minnesota's wilderness
On snowshoes and in aircraft, they pick up the trail of the celebrated predator as part of a wildlife retreat.
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Hunting wild animals – with cameras
Paparazzi naturalists catch nature in the act with strategically placed motion-sensitive cameras.
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More waters off California may be off limits to oil drilling
Congress is poised to expand two marine sanctuaries along the state's wild north coast.
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Charcoal fuels the economy and deforestation of Mozambique
Santos Junior Guilaza makes charcoal for a living – he and legions of people like him literally fuel the engine of rural souther Africa.
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Botanical conservatories take on urgent new role
Speed of climate change makes glasshouses bulwarks in the battle to preserve biodiversity.
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Polar bear habitat at center of Alaska drilling debate
One lawsuit aims to halt Wednesday's lease sales in the Chukchi Sea. Another would contest any listing of the polar bear as 'threatened.'
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Do polar bears need U.S. protection?
A federal agency is poised to say whether global warming means the bear should be added to the 'threatened species' list.
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Can the world act fast enough to save the disappearing tuna?
Scientists say drastic measures need to be taken to restore the bluefin.
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Clean energy vs. whales: how to choose?
Northwest's dams are a source of clean energy. But scientists say they endanger salmon and orcas.
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