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In the absence of broad federal support, state managers in Louisiana have had to go it alone in the quest to save the state's eroding coastline.

As rising seas encroach on the Louisiana coast with increasing regularity, state managers face difficult choices about whom to relocate – and how.

Scientists have developed a technique to cryopreserve the reproductive cells of fish, and hope to use it to preserve the diversity of imperiled coral reefs. But not everyone agrees that species-focused conservation is worth the effort in the face of global threats.

Sometime between Monday and Wednesday this week, a trillion-ton iceberg broke away from the Antarctic Peninsula. It’s a fascinating geological phenomenon to watch, but the causes and implications are often misunderstood.

Self-described extreme botanist Steve Perlman goes where no man – nor goat – has gone before to find and save the rarest plants in Hawaii.

Three years of drought have driven many farmers to desperation. But thousands of women in Karnataka state are desilting lakes to deepen them, helping them retain water when the rains one day come again.  

Beijing's Grain-for-Green program has helped blanket the country's hillsides with trees, undoing damage from decades of blistering development. But fostering biodiversity remains a challenge, conservationists say.

Opposing philosophies of land ownership and conservation in Utah keep San Juan county officials and federal agencies from seeing eye-to-eye.

New Zealand is home to one of the highest proportions of threatened species in the world. Desperate to save its beloved wildlife, the archipelago nation is seizing on a drastic and controversial strategy: kill all the predators.

Indications are that Trump will withdraw from the landmark climate agreement, which could have big impacts. But global and local efforts are likely to continue, with or without the White House.