Aquaculture is not the sustainable or ethical solution to food insecurity that industry or governments claim, nor is it a ...

Social Darwinists use “survival of the fittest” as an excuse to privatize land or remove the social safety net. But that ...

When we write about insects, we’re not just reporting on science. We’re inviting people to slow down, to observe and to ...

Ever wonder what the difference is between fungi and mushrooms? Think of fungi as the larger main organisms, and mushrooms as ...

Cartoonist Tiffany Everett’s new book encourages readers to explore new places, keep journals about what they encounter, and ...

As we’ve seen with tigers and other threatened species, captive lion breeding may stimulate consumer demand and put ...

From poisonings to collisions with power lines, these birds face many threats. But as they decline, so does their ability to ...

On a recent, pre-pandemic journey to the High Andes of Colombia, I found myself surrounded by one of the region’s emblematic species, the flowering shrubs known locally as frailejones or “big monks.” ...

Left Out to Dry: Wildlife Threatened by Colorado River Basin Water Crisis Lost in much of the coverage of the region’s water woes is the ecological crisis caused by prolonged drought, climate warming ...

Tim Lydon writes from Alaska on public-lands and conservation issues. He has worked on public lands for much of the past three decades, both as a guide and for land-management agencies, and is a ...

Messengers of the Eternal: Trees in Life and Literature To plant a tree is to affirm one’s faith in the future, while at the same time reckoning with the sadness inherent in the comparative brevity of ...

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 ...