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Breaking Precious Ground
Ecuador's Yasuní National Park may be the world's richest rainforest. What will become of it now that oil extraction has begun?
The Species We Have Yet to Meet
What we don't know may be just as important to setting conservation priorities as what we do know.
The Shortfalls of Biodiversity
Meaningfully assessing the health and value of ecosystems requires far more than simply counting up all the species that live there.
The Zika Challenge
As we look for ways to prevent the world’s latest mosquito-borne disease, our focus on the mosquitoes themselves might be obscuring a more sustainable solution.
By Foot into Peru’s Lost World
A team of herpetologists treks into one of South America’s most pristine and poorly understood mountain ranges and discovers animals found nowhere else on Earth.