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Photograph of the front end of a narwhal swimming in the water, its long tusk clearly visible.

A lifetime of love for the charismatic narwhal

An independent scientist working with the Inuit has unraveled many mysteries of the one-tusked ‘unicorn of the sea’

Large platters hold monkey meat that has been cooked. Several women stand behind the platters.

In defense of wild meat’s place at the table

Sustainable and safe consumption of wildlife is possible, and important for those who depend on it, says a conservation researcher

Four deer stare at the camera. In the background are folded proteins and a bullseye.

Living World

How to control chronic wasting disease

A prion sickness similar to mad cow is spreading rapidly through North America’s deer and elk populations. A veterinary microbiologist discusses the options for keeping it in check.

Conceptual illustration shows a person speaking words that appear as aspects of the natural world, like plants and animals.

Society

Indigenous languages are founts of environmental knowledge

Peoples who live close to nature have a rich lore of plants, animals and landscapes embedded in their mother tongues — which may hold vital clues to protecting biodiversity

Women and men, some with baskets of berries on their heads, harvest coffee from lush rows of trees, taller shade trees are visible in the background.

Food & Environment

How shade coffee lends conservation a hand

When managed in the right way, the farms that provide our morning brew can be a refuge for plant and animal biodiversity

Photograph of many, many, many, many fishes.

Food & Environment

Not enough fish in the sea

The scientist who found a way to tally up global catches is an ocean advocate and a vocal critic of industrial fisheries. Now we have a treaty for the high seas — but does it go far enough?

Old-fashioned Christmas-card painting of people wrapped up warmly cutting mistletoe from trees in snowy weather.

Living World

Mistletoes in a warming world

Can the famous parasitic plants help animals to survive climate change, or will they be killed off by extreme weather?

Photograph of the deck of a large commercial fishing vessel. Fish are falling from a massive net and piling on the deck floor, as fishermen look on.

Food & Environment

The human hand in fish evolution

Fishery practices that go for the big ones may be counterproductive when mostly the small survive

Fatu, born in 2000, is one of the world’s last two surviving northern white rhinos. A 2013 photograph shows her hanging out with southern white rhinos at Kenya’s Pejeta Nature Conservancy.

Living World

At San Diego’s Frozen Zoo, a chance for animal immortality

The cryobank is a rich source of genetic knowledge of hundreds of creatures. It may one day be used to bring endangered species back from the brink and deepen the gene pool of wild populations.

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