Articles by

Brianna Randall

Ximena Velez-Liendo is saving Andean bears with honey

In 1998, at the age of 22, conservation biologist Ximena Velez-Liendo came face-to-face with South America’s largest...

A new road map shows how to prevent pandemics

Want to limit the transfer of viruses between animals and humans? A new report gives examples of...

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,...