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, ...

“To summarize my view of where we are at the present time in the conservation movement…we are winning battles in a losing war,” famed biologist, naturalist, and writer Edward O. Wilson said in a phone ...

Smithsonian’s Earth Optimism and Conseervation X Labs have collaborated since the first Earth Optimism Summit. Cat Kutz In the Peruvian Amazon, drones like this one are being used to monitor and ...

A grant from the Bezos Earth Fund to help save 25 frog species through conservation, rewilding and disease prevention efforts Vanessa Crooks Frog defenders: the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute ...

Humanity has pushed Earth to the brink with more than a million species threatened with extinction. There are a number of ideas for how to stop the collapse of nature, but among the most radical is ...

In a recent study, a team of researchers attempted to predict how the application of two global conservation ideas, Half-Earth and Whole Earth, would impact orangutan conservation on the island of ...

One reason for the decline in extinction rates is the growing momentum of conservation efforts. Multiple species have been saved from extinction by habitat protections, breeding programs, and legal ...

Today is Earth Day, and NPR and the rest of the media are celebrating government and its environmental laws such as the Endangered Species Act and green energy transformations. Joe Biden will be ...

Almost half of the Earth’s land surface must be protected to stop the biodiversity crisis, according to a new report published Friday in the journal Science. The research found some 64 million square ...

It’s Earth Day, a time to celebrate our planet and recognize efforts to protect it. Across the Upstate, nature lovers spent the weekend outside in the sun in anticipation of Earth Day this Monday.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (April 28, 2014) -- Earth Day presented the perfect opportunity to show more than 625 Huntsville area students how the Huntsville Center supports the Army Energy Campaign Plan through ...