Articles by

Brianna Randall

Here’s how many shark bites there were in 2023

Despite the sensationalized portrayal of sharks in movies like Jaws, the ocean’s apex predators have far more...

The Endangered Species Act is turning 50. Has it succeeded?

While growing up in California in the 1980s, Winifred Frick never saw a condor in the wild....

Landscape Explorer shows how much the American West has changed

With the click of a mouse, a new mapping tool shows how places in the American West...

America’s Billion-Dollar Tree Problem Is Spreading

Fast-growing, drought-tolerant trees are slowly spreading across grasslands on every continent except Antarctica. Given how desperate we...

Tree-climbing carnivores called fishers are back in Washington’s forests

Holding an antenna above his head, Jeff Lewis crept through an evergreen forest in the Cascade mountains,...

Simple hand-built structures can help streams survive wildfires and drought

Wearing waders and work gloves, three dozen employees from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation...