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In Search of Suckers

An endangered fish makes a comeback in the Grand Canyon’s depths—but will the razorback sucker stick around?

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Life After Timber

What's a community to do when outside forces and ecological realities threaten the very industry on which it's built?

Young-growth Sitka spruce and western hemlock logs stacked along the edge of Good Faith Lumber’s wood lot, near Thorne Bay, Alaska.
Old-Growth Logging’s Last Stand?

Clearcutting ancient trees in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest makes little sense—ecologically, climatically, perhaps even economically. So why is it so hard to stop?

How to Save a Rainforest

It took decades to hammer out a landmark conservation deal to save Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest. Now the real work begins.

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 Seed Savers

As the trees at the heart of America’s western wilderness are dying, ecologists are trying to grow their way out of the problem.

American Leadership for a Sustainable Future

How the next president responds to the world's environmental challenges will determine the fate of our world for centuries to come.

An Ecologist’s Guide to Writing Obituaries

Wielding narrative power in global politics when things are dying… or dead

Unearthing Nature’s Pesticides

Biological pesticides, from bacterial toxins to fungi delivered by bees, are a hot trend in agriculture. But harnessing nature is no easy task.

Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) shoal in open ocean, North of Santa Maria island, Azores, Portugal, September.
Counting Fish

An impossible challenge, but one that's critical to the fish, the ecosystems in which they live, and the humans who depend on them