Nature Conservancy

A group of scientists taught an algorithm to spot beaver ponds in satellite imagery, which has the potential to help drought-ridden areas like California bounce back.

A valley of giant trees, lakes and wetlands in southeastern British Columbia nearly 200 times the size of Vancouver’s Stanley Park is being preserved in an agreement with governments, Indigenous groups, a forest company and the Nature Conservancy of Canada.

Negotiators reached a historic deal at a U.N. biodiversity conference early Monday that would represent the most significant effort to protect the world’s lands and oceans and provide critical financing to save biodiversity in the developing world.

If global biodiversity — the subject of a huge international meeting in Montreal this week — is too much of a mouthful, try thinking instead about the white-throated sparrow. 

Katharine Hayhoe says the world is heading for dangers people have not seen in 10,000 years of civilization.

In the next few years, scientists will scrutinize the Sycan Marsh to see how the Bootleg Fire reacted to different types of forest management, which will help people understand how to tame wildfires.

By restoring ecosystems, conservationists can help the land sequester carbon. But it's still no substitute for drastically cutting emissions.

The World’s Forgotten Fishes report lists pollution, overfishing and climate change as dangers for freshwater fish populations around the globe.

You may have seen recent videos of goats roaming an empty town. But for more vulnerable species, like rhinos, this shutdown poses a great danger.

Scientists have warned that governments have about 11 years to enact large-scale climate legislation to stop global warming

The Nature Conservancy now owns four chunks of land in B.C.'s magnificent Great Bear Rainforest, and has promised they will never be cut down.

The work of scientists underpinned the current Great Bear Rainforest agreement that is being celebrated by people on all sides of the land-use issue.