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A portrait of mycologist Sigrid Jakob surrounded by different kinds of mushrooms, leaves, and equipment she uses to sequence them.

One woman’s mission to diversify and document New York City’s mushroom scene

 Environment
• May 6, 2024

Sigrid Jakob and other citizen mycologists are classifying fungal species before they disappear.

When wildlife goes viral

 Environment
• February 19, 2024

What New Zealand’s bird of the century contest can teach us about conservation

An illustration of an owl as a popular social media post

What happens when wild animals become social media sensations?

 Environment Blog
• September 18, 2023

Wildlife celebrities are becoming more common. Whether this harms or helps conservation depends on how we engage with these critters’ stories online

An endangered blue and red striped candy darter in a river.

This freshwater fish is facing an identity crisis

 Environment
• July 24, 2023

Efforts to restore candy darter populations are underway, but their genes live on in other fish and raise thorny questions for conservation biologists

Framed by a clear blue sky, a woman plants dune grass on a beach in New York City.

NYC students make ‘shore’ Coney Island is safe from storms by planting grasses

 Video
• May 30, 2023

Students from three schools participated in a program to create ‘living shorelines’ along the coast to protect communities from storm surge and flooding

A botanist peers through a tiny magnifying glass to observe a small piece of moss. He is surrounded by tall phragmites, a type of invasive plant.

On Staten Island, flood control plans threaten a haven for rare plants

 Environment
• May 5, 2023

Ten years after Superstorm Sandy struck the east coast, naturalists worry a government-funded storm mitigation plan will wipe out a historic ecosystem

A shoreline of empty mollusk shells descends into a pond. Grass in the background also extends into the pond.

To help Jamaica Bay’s threatened wildlife, help the poachers

 Environment
• September 1, 2022

The fragile estuary is also a vital food source for New Yorkers, including Asian Americans, suffering during the pandemic

Wildlife rehabilitator Tristan Higginbotham holds a small ovenbird

Making the city that never sleeps safer for birds

 Environment
• July 7, 2022

New York City is at the center of a political fight over dimming nighttime lights that attract and kill migrating birds

Floating walkways and nets make up the fish farm in the Pacific Ocean.

2022 could be the beginning of the end for open-net fish farms in Canada

 Environment
• February 25, 2022

A federal mandate to phase out open-net fish farms and the announced closure of a hatchery signal the practice is on its way out

A large brick building sits on top of a big dam, with the river in the foreground. Excavators are demolishing a corner of the dam.

Take dams down and the fish will come

 Environment
• August 13, 2021

Thousands of U.S. dams could be removed to restore important fish habitat without impacting hydropower generation, experts say

Neill Holland holds a crab trap dipped in water and stands on a white boat

Chasing ‘ghosts’ in the bay

 Environment
• July 2, 2021

A Florida captain’s creative solution to the global problem of marine debris: Let’s rodeo 

An adult bald eagle feeds two small eaglets in a nest

Webcams offer citizens a peek into the lives of bald eagles

 Environment
• June 16, 2021

Growing public awareness and engagement have played a part in the birds’ recovery, experts say

A green, grassy landscape with hills and a cloudy sky in the background, and a small pond in the foreground

Can tree campaigns curb climate change without harming grasslands?

 Environment
• May 28, 2021

Past tree-planting pushes have had unintended ecological consequences

A black cicada with bulging red eyes and translucent amber wings perches on a twig against a leafy green background.

How reliable is ‘cicadian rhythm’ in a changing world?

 Environment
• April 23, 2021

Brood X periodical cicadas come out every 17 years and are set to emerge this spring. One day, they might not

Squid-like robot swims through a tank

Bio-inspired soft robotics are making a splash in ocean research

 Tech
• March 17, 2021

A squid robot is among the latest to take to the seas

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