Features

Fire Fallout: How Ash and Debris Are Choking Australia’s Rivers

By Adam Welz

Psychic Numbing: Keeping Hope Alive in a World of Extinctions

By Carl Safina

Opinion

How a Trump Administration Rule Could Kill Millions of Birds

By Ted Williams

When It Comes to Nuclear Power, Could Smaller Be Better?

By Lois Parshley

Salvation or Pipe Dream? A Movement Grows to Protect Up to Half the Planet

By Jim Robbins

How Native Tribes Are Taking the Lead on Planning for Climate Change

By Nicola Jones

Analysis

Why Clouds Are the Key to New Troubling Projections on Warming

By Fred Pearce

Andes Meltdown: New Insights Into Rapidly Retreating Glaciers

By Jonathan Moens

Opinion

Deep Decarbonization: A Realistic Way Forward on Climate Change

By David G. Victor

Analysis

As Climate Risks Worsen, U.S. Flood Buyouts Fail to Meet the Need

By Rob Moore

How Thawing Permafrost Is Beginning to Transform the Arctic

By Ed Struzik

Long Shaped By Fire, Australia Enters a Perilous New Era

By Fred Pearce

Native Species or Invasive? The Distinction Blurs as the World Warms

By Sonia Shah

Ecopsychology: How Immersion in Nature Benefits Your Health

By Jim Robbins

YOUNG WRITERS AWARD WINNER — THIRD PLACE

Wild Roots: On a Vermont Farm, Renewal for a Man and His Land

By Valerie Blakely

YOUNG WRITERS AWARD WINNER — SECOND PLACE

Song of the Western Ghats: A Green Island in a Crowded Land

By Priyanka Hari Haran

YOUNG WRITERS AWARD WINNER

A River Worth Saving: Who Will Protect the Unheralded Llano?

By Austin Price

Nepal’s Road-Building Spree Pushes into the Heart of the Himalayas

By Broughton Coburn

The Plastics Pipeline: A Surge of New Production Is on the Way

By Beth Gardiner

Opinion

Let It Be: Why We Must Save Alaska’s Pristine Tongass Forest

By Kim Heacox

Why India Is Making Progress in Slowing Its Population Growth

By Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar