Amid calls to protect 30% of U.S. lands and water by 2030, the question is being asked how the 30x30 strategy can work given the growth of renewable energy operations. After all, both plans require vast swaths of land to achieve their goals.

The most recent U.S. Sea-Level Report Card from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science shows the pace of sea-level rise is accelerating. Of the 32 included tide-gauge stations along the U.S. coastline, 25 showed water levels rising at a faster rate in 2019 than in 2018.

Is 2019 the year for climate action?

Rally is always a busy time for me and the land conservation community, but this year it was even more so. Because it came just days after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's special report.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, I'm struck by another challenge being exacerbated by the impacts of climate change. How do we connect people with nature when what it means to experience nature is changing before our eyes?

Saltwater intrusion is a slow-moving crisis on farm fields. What will it take for farmers to overcome this challenge?

Empowering farmers to stay in business after traditional crops fail is an increasingly urgent concern in an age of rising seas.

Over 80 percent of the U.S. population lives under skies so polluted by man-made lights that celestial objects like the Milky Way are almost invisible.

In 1978, during low tide in the Columbia River Estuary, amateur paleontologists exploring the tidal flats in Pacific County, Washington, found the skull and teeth of a primitive whale dating back 25 million years to the Oligocene, a geological epoch.

Habitat restoration is a goal of many land trusts, including Three Valley Conservation Trust in Oxford, Ohio.

Americans feel significantly differently about land trusts and land conservancies, a new survey reveals.

The monarch butterfly and its spectacular 3,000-mile migration — from Mexico, throughout the American Midwest, to Canada — is in great jeopardy.

The accredited Columbia Land Trust flew a drone over a swamp restoration project and got a lot more information than it could have collected by sending its stewardship staff wading and clambering through the wet terrain.

Many land trusts struggle with how to communicate about climate change in the communities they serve.

A new guide gives land trusts the tools and tips to harness climate resiliency data for lasting, on-the-ground land protection.

Pokémon Go, the insanely popular mobile game that’s motivating people to physically explore the outside world, represents a grand opportunity for land trusts.

The McDowell Sonoran Conservancy has one scientist on its staff, ecologist Melanie Tluczek. Yet the organization conducts extensive research on the 30,200-acre desert preserve that it helps manage north of Phoenix. How does the organization do so much research?

As both an artist and a scientist people sometimes ask me, “How does art affect your views on science?” or “Does science find its way into your art?” The simple answer is that the boundary between them is porous.

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