A growing field of research reveals that predators like alligators play an important — but little-recognized — role in ...

A Steal of a Deal: How Ranchers Take Advantage of Public Lands Ranchers pay just $1.35 a month to graze cattle on public lands and national forests. You couldn’t feed a cat or dog for 10 times that ...

Climate change threatens species around the world. At the same time, many animals can help us in the fight against climate change — if we let them.

As the climate crisis escalates, a huge amount of attention and money is being focused on climate solutions. These can be divided into two categories: solutions that pursue “mitigation,” which lowers ...

John R. Platt is the editor of The Revelator and an award-winning environmental journalist whose work has appeared in dozens of publications around the world. His “Extinction Countdown” column has run ...

The global annual production of plastics rose to 400 million metric tons in 2022 and is projected to double by 2050. Many items produced are single-use, and less than 10% of plastic waste is recycled.

Images of a shrinking Lake Mead illustrate a stark water crisis — one that’s being exacerbated by climate change. As the arid Southwest is getting hotter and drier, there’s less water to store. But a ...

10 Things We’ve Learned a Decade After the Deepwater Horizon Disaster We know a lot more now about the ecology of the Gulf of Mexico and the risks of deep-water drilling, but that doesn’t mean we’re ...

Trump vs. Birds: Proposed Budget Eliminates Critical Research Programs Experts say there’s “no substitute” for the Bird Banding Laboratory or the Breeding Bird Survey, which help reveal the health and ...

Klamath Countdown: Researchers Hustle Before Largest Dam-Removal Project Begins To anticipate the impacts of a historic river restoration, we need to understand how salmon, bats, insects, algae and ...

The Silent Threat Beneath Our Feet: How Deregulation Fuels the Spread of Forever Chemicals The Trump administration has already rolled back planned limits on PFAS chemicals, which have been linked to ...

Will the Race for Electric Vehicles Endanger the Earth’s Most Sensitive Ecosystem? Materials needed to make the batteries for electric cars and other clean technology is driving interest in ...