If you liked this story, share it with other people. Tyler Kartzinel likens protecting biodiversity to enhancing cellphone networks. His analogy is pretty straightforward: look for gaps in coverage, ...

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The team at Gilliard Farms have been stewards of the land for six generations. Farmers are stewards of everything from soil and the crops that pop out of it to the microbes teeming with life ...

Nevada is the 11th most biodiverse state in the nation but ranks third for having the most plants and animals at risk, according to NatureServe, a nonprofit that provides conservancy data to public ...

A survey of Colombian birdlife, which evolved over more than a decade into the world’s largest-ever ornithological study, has ...