Month: January 2022

When researcher Elizabeth Clare was charged with exploring how environmental DNA carried in the air could be used to detect mammals, she was surprised by what she found. Nothing. The...

In January 2021, the Biden Administration committed to protecting 30% of U.S. lands and oceans by 2030, based on a wider goal the United Nations set to protect about a...

When Wini Kessler was a undergraduate zoology student at the University of California, Berkeley in the early 1970s, she sat in on an impromptu seminar offered by a visiting professor....

Most of the islands in the Gulf of California are uninhabited, but for generations, a fishing family has lived on El Pardito Island in the southwestern end near La Paz....

Ron Wooten had a rough introduction to the coyotes of Galveston, Texas. A pack ran off with his dog one night. But the experience turned into a fascination with the...

A massive new nature preserve is helping create a wildlife corridor connecting Northern and Southern California. The 112-square-mile Randall Preserve, The Nature Conservancy’s largest holding in California, links a patchwork...

As the Sitkalidak Island bison herd continues to grow in the western Gulf of Alaska, wildlife biologists and community members are setting out to learn more about the herd in...

Forest management to reduce fuels in California spotted owl habitat not only decreases the risk of severe megafires – it can also benefit the declining species in the long run....

Early estimates from Wyoming’s 2021 sage-grouse wings indicate reproduction declined slightly in the last year. Wings from harvested chick and hen sage-grouse are collected from hunters who voluntarily drop them...

Over the last decade, researchers hadn’t been seeing as many North Atlantic right whales in their usual spots. For decades, survey efforts were focused on the waters around Maine and...