How New Zealand’s Pesky Pigs Turned Into a Cash Cow
The animals evolved into ultra-resilient, disease-free predators while isolated on Auckland Island. Now people want to breed them for organ transplants. ..
The animals evolved into ultra-resilient, disease-free predators while isolated on Auckland Island. Now people want to breed them for organ transplants. ..
Botanists and community stewards are using patches of native flora as blueprints to revive tropical dry evergreen ecosystems from near-extinction. ..
Astrophysicist and 'Off-Earth' author Erika Nesvold maps out the questions we need to ask before living on other planets. ..
One million species are at risk of extinction, but a handful of charismatic creatures get all the hype. A new conservation strategy has a different focus. ..
Startups rush to gain a foothold in a burgeoning industry as New York and California move to legalize human composting. ..
Scientists say collecting, studying, and storing the carcasses from wind and solar facilities can unlock new insights. ..
Audacious plans to resurrect the long-extinct bird could be lucrative. But the moonshot raises thorny philosophical questions. ..
A new research and monitoring program aims to conserve threatened but overlooked saline ecosystems. ..
As the state’s residents step up to save the sea cows, advocacy organizations believe the solution is less about lettuce—and more about leaders. ..
More than a million acres of state forest contain trees that have succumbed to stressors exacerbated by a multiyear drought ..