Hundreds of native Connecticut species including birds, fish, and mammals are listed among those with the greatest conservation need, according to the newly released 2025 Connecticut Wildlife Action ...

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, ...

More than a quarter of Connecticut's plant and wildlife species need more conservation research due to declining populations, ...

Botanic gardens hold a third of Earth’s plant species, but broken data systems are slowing conservation when climate risks ...

Do animals play a larger role in shaping the Earth’s surface than geological processes like flooding, wind, fire, and landslides? This is what a recent study published in Proceedings of the National ...

At a meeting of top conservation groups this week, a bioethics question took center stage: Should scientists be allowed to tinker with the genes of wild plants and animals? The tentative consensus so ...

In our modern era of larger, more destructive, and longer-lasting fires -- called the Pyrocene -- plants and animals are evolving quickly to survive. By synthesizing the wide body of research about ...

Biodiversity—the vast variety of life on Earth—forms the foundation of healthy ecosystems, stable climates, and resilient societies. From microscopic organisms to towering forests and complex animal ...

Fungi have a nasty reputation among humans. They can cause dangerous diseases like Cryptococcus neoformans and Candida auris among our own kind, massacre beloved fellow animals like frogs and bats and ...

According to scientists, 80 percent of the Earth’s living species are unknown to humans. Even as more are identified, more are disappearing — and sometimes, we don’t know what’s being lost until it’s ...

Source: Palgrave Macmillan, with permission. Wildlife populations globally are in deep trouble because of human exploitation that ranges from slaughtering individuals "in the name of human interests" ...