Dustin Solberg

1 month ago | blog.nature.org | Eric Seeger |Justine E Hausheer |Dustin Solberg |Natalie van Hoose

Eric Seeger is the deputy editor at Nature Conservancy magazine. He grew up surfing hurricane swells in Florida during the 1990s and 2000s, and has lived the last 18 years near Asheville, North Carolina. He wrote about his experience in the wake of the historic floods and landslides that hit North Carolina and Tennessee in 2024. “As this article was going to press, images of the devasting wildfires in Southern California were hitting the news,” he says.

1 month ago | blog.nature.org | Matthew Miller |Justine E Hausheer |Dustin Solberg

Walking through the Borneo rainforest, you catch just glimpses of its wildlife. A hornbill soaring over a forest opening. A pair of otters darting along a riverbank. Perhaps just a rustling bush and patch of fur. But many of the charismatic creatures here remain out of sight. It’s not the Serengeti, where large beasts parade in large herds in the open, easily filmed for nature documentaries. In Indonesian Borneo, the charismatic wildlife exists in low densities, but in high diversity.

Nov 26, 2024 | sierraclub.org | Dustin Solberg

Summer days on a fishing boat in Alaska stretch on and on, luxuriously so. Twilight comes long past my bedtime, but that doesn't mean more time. If winter is for getting ready, summer means showtime. This is when the waterfront cannery where I set out in my boat for the first day of the commercial fishing season churns with new life. It runs full tilt for as long as the sockeye are running.

Oct 6, 2024 | blog.nature.org | Matthew Miller |Dustin Solberg |Justine E Hausheer

A new global map identifying land conversion pressures provides a critical component in understanding where conservation interventions are most urgent. Human-caused habitat change has increased dramatically over the past 25 years, causing well-known declines for biodiversity and nature’s benefits to people. For conservationists, knowing what lands are at most risk is critical information, but to date a global dataset of land conversion pressures has been lacking.

Sep 22, 2024 | blog.nature.org | Christine Peterson |Justine E Hausheer |Dustin Solberg |Lisa Marie Ballard

Sprinkled throughout every county in one of the country’s most densely populated states, lives more than 3,000 furry, lumbering omnivores. Even in New Jersey, black bears have learned to coexist, more or less, with humans. Their adaptability has made them one of the world’s most abundant bear species, and also the one faring the best in an increasingly human-dominated landscape.