He lobbied governments and wrote books, papers and articles to alert the public to looming disasters like mass extinction well before they were common knowledge.
The decline of one of the world’s most endangered large whale species has pushed individual states and Canada to test new technologies, like ropeless fishing gear.
Antique dealers have failed in an attempt to overturn a total ban on ivory trading being introduced by the government after the high court ruled that the legislation did not breach European law.
Colombia’s national tree, the wax palm, is endangered. Now, with decades of guerrilla war in retreat, scientists are rediscovering vast forests and racing to study and protect them.
A team from UBC is using aerial drones and sonar to study whether endangered southern residents are getting enough of their preferred prey, chinook salmon.
Researchers studying fossil records say they have come up with an innovative approach to try to save the mountain pygmy possum, an Australian species under serious threat due to global heating.
An expedition surveying the Gulf of California for the critically endangered vaquita porpoise has reported seeing more than 70 fishing boats in a protected refuge.
Conservation groups are calling for the immediate closure of the herring fishery in the Strait of Georgia following government data showing a four-year population biomass decline of almost 60 per cent.
With a tweet, President Trump kick-started the battle over water that flows through a fragile delta habitat for endangered fish. Now his agencies are saying it could alleviate the effects of climate change. Critics say otherwise.
American industry, aided by federal regulators, is conducting a large-scale, consequential experiment with our hormones and the developing brains and reproductive systems of our children.
Jim Inhofe, the Senate's unwavering climate denier, turns 85 on Sunday. I requested a Q&A with him when he turns 100 to see how the "hoax" has turned out.
