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 are desperately trying to understand the cause of a mass die-off that has cut the global population of the critically endangered saiga antelope nearly in half. Saiga antelopes, known for ...

Spring calving season for the saiga antelope of central Kazakhstan is a delight for the researchers who keep tabs on the critically endangered animals. During the day, thousands of newborn saigas lie ...

ASTANA, Kazakhstan -- Kazakhstan is planning to cull up to 337,000 saiga antelope after the number of the once-endangered animal roaming the Kazakh steppe increased by tenfold in the past decade after ...

Riding a cross-country motorcycle equipped with nets might seem more like Mad Max than science, but its key to saving a species in Kazakhstan that survived the Ice Age. Salemgareyev, the Lead ...

The authorities in Kazakhstan have announced plans to conduct a cull of saiga antelopes in response to complaints from farmers that the endangered animals are causing damage to crops and pastures.

An international team of scientists has unraveled the mystery behind the sudden deaths of 200,000 antelopes in Kazakhstan in May 2015. The strange mass mortality event, which lasted three weeks, left ...

Ulanbaatar, Mongolia, 16 May, 2018 - Populations of the critically endangered Mongolian saiga antelope (hereinafter ‘saiga’), which occurs only in Mongolia, have plummeted by 40 percent following ...

Just a few years ago, the rare saiga antelope was on the verge of extinction in Kazakhstan. Now, saigas are roaming the steppe in such numbers that the government is thinking of domesticating the ...

The meeting was also attended by representatives from intergovernmental organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and local communities from the region. The Saiga lives in the semi-arid ...

Each spring since 2007, scientists have scoured Kazakhstan’s Ustyurt Plateau for baby saiga antelope. Because this population of the critically endangered species is the country’s smallest and most ...