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Healthy Planet Stewardship

Home from the Sea

With support from the state, forest industry and conservation groups, OSU researchers gather data on threatened seabird

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Healthy Planet homestories

Hunters and Their Prey

Taal Levi wants humans and animals to coexist

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Earth Healthy Planet

The Mystery of the Disappearing Birds

Once upon a time Barro Colorado Island was a mountaintop, rising from the trackless rainforest that carpeted the Isthmus of Panama. Its deep-green slopes hosted pumas and jaguars and more than 200 species of birds.

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Healthy Planet Marine Studies Initiative

Blue Carbon

The reason for mangroves’ massive capacity for carbon can be summed up in two words: perpetual wetness.

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Healthy Planet

The Most Dangerous Thing — “It’s not the large carnivores”

Boone Kauffman and his research team share their field work with leeches, disease-carrying insects and other dangers.

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Healthy Planet Stewardship

Of Spots and Stripes

To hear Katie Dugger tell it, you’d think catching a baby northern spotted owl for scientific banding was as easy as taking a Tootsie Roll from a toddler.