wildlife

Doug Tallamy, the wildlife ecologist and entomologist who urges home gardeners to join forces and create a pollinator-friendly “Homegrown National Park,” is now bringing kids into the effort.

Gobonamang Kgetho has a deep affection for Africa’s largest inland delta, the Okavango. It is his home.

Wildflower meadows have been growing in popularity among gardeners, and for good reason. They’re low-maintenance and drought-tolerant, provide food for birds, wildlife, pollinators and other insects, and they’re pretty.

Ben Wilson’s book Urban Jungle is a nuanced history of urban ecology and its vital role in the climate-change era.

Collecting, studying, and storing the carcasses from wind and solar facilities, scientists say, can unlock new insights.

A property that includes fescue grasslands, forests and wetlands near Waterton Lakes National Park in southern Alberta has been purchased by the Nature Conservancy of Canada.

Turf wars between the microbes dictate how much carbon salt marshes store and how much methane they pump into the air.

Once-in-a-decade plans to protect the natural world and halt its destruction will be decided in Montreal in December.

Artist Siobhán McDonald will turn the recordings into an acoustic installation exploring humanity’s impact on the ocean.

The huge scale of human-driven loss of species demands urgent action, say the world’s leading scientists.

Dave Foreman, a self-proclaimed eco-warrior who was a prominent member of the radical environmentalism movement and a co-founder of Earth First!, has died. He was 74.

Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault made the announcement at an aquatic club next to the Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes wilderness area, in the west end of Halifax.

Africa’s national parks, home to thousands of wildlife species such as lions, elephants and buffaloes, are increasingly threatened by below−average rainfall and new infrastructure projects, stressing habitats and the species that rely on them.

With the drive for renewables leading to land-use conflicts, building highly efficient utility-scale solar farms on ever-smaller tracts of land has become a top priority. New approaches range from installing PV arrays that take up less space to growing crops between rows of panels.