Biodiversity for a Livable Climate

Learn How Scientists and the Community Work Together to Protect the Snow Leopard

Conservation works best when local communities and scientists work together, not in silos. A Snow Leopard Trust director breaks down how that approach turned poachers into protectors in India and stopped a mine from swallowing prime snow leopard habitat in Mongolia.

Vertical Migration Timing Illuminates Importance of Predator Pressure in the Ocean’s Twilight Zone

Each night, millions of deep-sea animals migrate from the ocean’s twilight zone to the surface to feed under cover of darkness. Using underwater robots equipped with sonar, MBARI researchers found that smaller animals begin their ascent earlier than larger ones, and that predators like Risso’s dolphins can significantly delay squid migrations — revealing that deep-sea vertical migration is driven by complex predator-prey dynamics involving both visual and non-visual hunting strategies.

Wildfires Fact & Fiction

Every wildfire season leaves behind the same heartbreaking images: families displaced, communities devastated, forests transformed, and wildlife struggling to survive. Yet despite billions of dollars spent each year, the fires continue to grow larger and more destructive.

Beginning September 10, Wildfires Fact & Fiction brings together Hart Hagan and an exceptional lineup of guest experts, including Richard L. Hutto, Chad Hanson, George Wuerthner, Josh Schlossberg, and Anastassia Makarieva, to examine what decades of ecological research and on-the-ground experience reveal about wildfire resilience. Together, they’ll explore the relationship between water, forests, biodiversity, and fire, challenge long-held assumptions about wildfire management, and discuss practical approaches that protect both people and ecosystems.

If you’ve ever wondered why wildfires seem to keep getting worse despite so much money, effort, and attention, this course is for you. Whether you’ve experienced wildfire firsthand, care deeply about forests and wildlife, or simply want to understand what the science really says, you’ll leave with a clearer picture of what’s driving today’s fires and why a different way of thinking may be one of our best hopes for building healthier, more resilient landscapes.

How Forests Create Rain

Take a peek inside Bio4Climate’s 2025 educational series, Water: The Missing Climate Solution, led by instructor Hart Hagan, with exclusive access to the presentation and discussion with Atmospheric physicist Dr. Anastassia Makarieva.

She explores the biotic pump and explains how forests generate rainfall, transport moisture, regulate water cycles, and function as active climate regulators not merely carbon sinks.

This video is part of Bio4Climate’s 2025 educational series, Water: The Missing Climate Solution.

Recommended Read: The Overstory

This Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestseller takes a new approach to exploring how sustainability and human survival are inseparable.

Powers’ fictional story weaves together multiple characters’ lives, using personal struggles, realizations, and choices to explore how their lives become intertwined with a “hidden” world of trees and revealing the consequences of ignoring and defending the living systems that sustain life on our planet.