Katherine Gallagher is a writer and sustainability expert. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Chapman University and a Sustainable Tourism certificate from the GSTC. Known for its distinct ...

What do you do when half a species dies practically all at once? That was the question that faced delegates from Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia and China when they met last week to discuss ...

Did a Soyuz spacecraft cause the deaths of hundreds of endangered saiga antelope in Kazakhstan this week? Some ecologists think so, although scientists and the Kazakh authorities remain skeptical.

Kristin is a science journalist in New York who has lived in DC, Boston, LA, and the SF Bay Area. Most recently, Kristin worked for PBS Newshour and National Geographic writing about science and ...

Scientists estimate that almost half of the world's population of the saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica) has died since 10 May this year. Saiga are strange-looking Ice Age antelopes which once roamed ...

Roaring at high speed, the rangers’ Soviet-era jeep rumbles over the hot plains of the Kazakh steppe, shimmying violently. In the back seat, piles of dirty camouflage jackets, oily assault rifles, ...

In just a few days, more than one-third of the world’s saiga antelopes died off. No one knew why — until now. The mysterious death of 200,000 critically endangered antelopes in Kazakhstan last year ...

More than 120,000 critically endangered saiga antelopes — more than one-third of the worldwide population — have died in Kazakhstan since mid-May, and the cause of the “catastrophic collapse” is ...