Clik here to view.
The Amazon Is in Trouble
A version of this article was originally published by Nature. The Pulitzer Center supported travel for Daniel Grossman, photographer Dado Galdieri and videographer Patrick Vanier. Luciana Gatti stares...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Marine Animals Are Feeling the Heat From Ocean Warming
Billions of missing crabs in the waters off Alaska are a grim harbinger. In October the Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced, for the second year in a row, that the Bering Sea snow crab...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Could Baird’s Tapirs Be a New Conservation Ambassador?
It’s 6 p.m. in the lowland tropical rainforest; darkness and the drone of insects descend upon two camouflage-clad individuals. They hunker on an elevated wooden platform to conceal their scent from a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What One Researcher Learned Studying Grizzlies for 40 Years
Bruce McLellan recalls seeing his first grizzly bear when he was only 4 years old. It must have made an impression. He became a wildlife ecologist and devoted his career to studying the hulking bruins...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Apathy Threatens the Planet. How Do We Get People to Care?
The natural world faces many threats, but to many environmentalists, none are so baffling and heartbreaking as public apathy toward those threats. How do we get more people to care about the natural...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Adapt, Move or Die? Plants and Animals Face New Pressures in a Warming World
The world continues to hit alarming records. Last year was the warmest since record keeping began in 1850. And the 10 warmest years have all occurred in the past decade. The implications for life on...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Links From the Brink: Ukraine and Wildlife, Grizzlies and Wolves, Pesticides...
As goes Ukraine, so goes the world. That’s the message of an important new paper — one of two striking recent studies looking at the wide-ranging environmental impacts of the Russian invasion of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Time to Let This Conservation Jargon Go Extinct?
As a conservation journalist, I read a lot of scientific papers, reports and press releases looking for story ideas. And even after doing this for nearly 20 years, many of those documents leave me...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Revelator Reads: 15 Random Books That Every Environmentalist Should Read
A few months ago, I decided to take a break from reading environmental books. I didn’t make the decision lightly — I’m an environmental journalist, after all. But I’ve spent the past seven years...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Challenges of Studying (and Treating) PTSD in Chimpanzees
Rachel the chimpanzee grew up in a suburban household under the care of an owner who treated her like a human child. She wore human clothes, ate human food, and took bubble baths. This went on until...
View Article
