Exploring nature conservation and conflict through real stories
For decades, conservationists and wildlife managers understood human wildlife conflict primarily as a land-use problem. Forests shrink, human settlements expand, and animals and people find themselves competing for the same shrinking space. The solution, in…
For twenty years, scientists believed they understood how a locust swarm works. The theory was elegant in its simplicity. Each locust, the thinking went, is essentially a self-propelled particle. It looks at the insects around…
In a small village on the edge of a forest in Assam, a farmer named Dilip Hazarika had been sleeping lightly — the way everyone in his village sleeps between July and October, when the…
When we think of war, we visualize human tragedy, destroyed cities, and economic collapse. However, beneath the smoke of battle lies a silent, forgotten victim: the natural world. War Ecology—the study of how armed conflict…
Germany's bird protection framework does not exist because European birds are thriving. It exists because they are disappearing at a scale and speed that scientists describe as an ecological emergency. A comprehensive study published by…
When a pilgrim cups water from the Ganga at Haridwar, they are performing an act of faith as old as recorded Indian civilization. They are also, according to research published in 2025, consuming microplastics. Not…
Today, approximately 415,000 elephants remain across 37 countries in sub-Saharan Africa — a number that sounds substantial until you understand the trajectory behind it. Africa may have held over 20 million elephants before European colonization.…
In early 2026, the government of Greenland — the vast Arctic territory of the Kingdom of Denmark — formally declared a regional climate emergency. The declaration was, in the words of officials in Nuuk, both…
At the end of 2024, an estimated 123.2 million people worldwide were forcibly displaced — equivalent to 1 in every 67 people on Earth. Displacement has nearly doubled over the last decade. By mid-2025, 117…
In early 2025, the most rigorous study of global glacier mass loss ever published appeared in the journal Nature. Coordinated by the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) at the University of Zurich, the Glacier Mass…
