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New rules will weaken the landmark law intended to save plants and animals on the brink. View the full article

The waterwheel lives a double life: facing extinction in its native habitat even as it creeps into places where it doesn’t belong. View the full article

Researchers studying trees at Green-Wood Cemetery found a nonnative beetle previously unknown to science. View the full article

Weaver and artist Alison Grace Martin uses non-Euclidean geometry to explore a flexible plant’s architectural potential. View the full article

Weaver and artist Alison Grace Martin employs non-Euclidean geometry in her small bamboo creations. Now she’s scaling up. View the full article

With designer and artist Alison Grace Martin, architects and engineers are embracing “the logic of the weave.” View the full article

A brain-invading parasite has made nearly 100 people sick in Hawaii in the last decade. How worried should health officials be? View the full article

These fish turn up in many surprising location, but this was one place scientists didn’t expect to find them. View the full article

These fish turn up in many surprising location, but this was one place scientists didn’t expect to find them. View the full article

Researchers are experimenting with a Rube Goldberg-esque mix of tactics to control hearty, nonnative swimmers that re-engineer nutrient-rich Midwest waters. View the full article

As temperatures warm across America, gardeners and growers are seeing flowers, shrubs, and trees shifting northward. View the full article

The state wants to roll back protections on millions of acres of forest land owned by U.S. taxpayers. View the full article

Worms are wriggling into Earth’s northernmost forests, creating major unknowns for climate-change models. View the full article

Plant and animal species are disappearing faster than at any time in recorded history. We know who is to blame. View the full article

The authors of a sweeping United Nations report on species in danger of extinction faced the same question I often do in reporting: Why should anyone care about the loss of nature? View the full article