Conservation

Dr. Lúcia Lohmann is a world-renowned botanist. She’s coming back to her second home, St. Louis, to tackle the climate crisis and lead a community institution as the Missouri Botanical Garden’s first woman president.

Scientists have uncovered surprisingly little about copperhead snakes. Until now.

Monarchs are migrating through the St. Louis region now, but residents are seeing fewer of them than ever before.

A grant from the state helped local educators create a grassland prairie for students to learn about conservation at an Oakville elementary school.

Since 1990, the St. Louis Zoo has played an instrumental role in bringing Tahitian snails back from the brink of extinction.

The number of monarchs migrating through St. Louis seems low this year, which has entomologists worrying about the population.

The 425-acre plot sits in Spanish Lake, near Ferguson at the junction of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers.

Missouri Department of Conservation Director Jason Sumners sees engaging with a community that is technologically more disconnected with nature as a challenge to the goals of conservation.

New findings from a St. Louis pilot study show bee pollinator habitats along highway corridors can potentially increase bee populations and improve food sustainability efforts.

A U.S. Supreme Court decision last year stripping wetlands of most federal protections is drawing more attention to the threatened ecosystems, and what states can do in response.