Plastic pollution is poisoning the planet. Some experts suggest making plastics from more “natural” materials, but research ...

As the island faces continuous urbanization, this rare shrub has gone unnoticed and ignored for decades, shrinking into ...

These beautifully produced new books — covering art and photography, cooking, crafts, and more — celebrate our wildlife, ...

As for turkeys, the United States has a national holiday to blame for the more than 200 million turkey deaths each year. And ...

Capitalism Loves Competition. Nature Has Other Ideas. Social Darwinists use “survival of the fittest” as an excuse to privatize land or remove the social safety net. But that fails to recognize how ...

Study: Commercial Lion Farming in South Africa Could Be Harming, Not Helping, Wild Lions As we’ve seen with tigers and other threatened species, captive lion breeding may stimulate consumer demand and ...

Many people are unaware of what life was like before major environmental laws. That makes it easier for corporate interests to push for harmful deregulation.

Why Tree-Planting Schemes Aren’t a Silver Bullet Numerous global reforestation efforts are underway, but research suggests getting long-term benefits is harder than it looks, and some projects can do ...

Critics argue the authoritarian government has rammed the project through with minimal environmental oversight and in violation of several laws.

How Habitable Will Earth Be When We Search for Life Beyond Our Planet? As we prepare to look for life in other solar systems, we should also look inward at what we’re doing to our home planet.

Unchecked development is rapidly dismantling the life-support system for the entire North Indian subcontinent. The Himalayas are young, fragile mountains, yet we treat them as if they’re infinitely ...