Features

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

Could Abandoned Agricultural Lands Help Save the Planet?

By Richard Conniff

Analysis

As Climate Change Worsens, A Cascade of Tipping Points Looms

By Fred Pearce

Aiming for Climate Targets, Germany Taps Its Geothermal Potential

By Paul Hockenos

Opinion

The New Climate Math: The Numbers Keep Getting More Frightening

By Bill McKibben

E360 VIDEO

Waterfront Retreat: A Bay Community Faces Rising Seas and Buyouts

Lawless Ocean: The Link Between Human Rights Abuses and Overfishing

By Ian Urbina

Climate Whiplash: Wild Swings in Extreme Weather Are on the Rise

By Jim Robbins

Analysis

Are Numbers of Species a True Measure of Ecosystem Health?

By Fred Pearce

Interview

From a Young Climate Movement Leader, a Determined Call for Action

By Katherine Bagley

Listening to Nature: The Emerging Field of Bioacoustics

By Adam Welz

Methane Detectives: Can a Wave of New Technology Slash Natural Gas Leaks?

By Jonathan Mingle