Features

Why It’s Time to Stop Punishing Our Soils with Fertilizers

By Richard Schiffman

The Battle Against Trump’s Assault on Climate Is Moving to the Courts

By Michael Burger

Five Questions for Bill McKibben on Why the Climate March Matters

Why Does Trump Want to Pull Plug on the Cleanup of the Chesapeake?

By Tom Horton

How Warming Is Profoundly Changing a Great Northern Wilderness

By Ed Struzik

As China Pushes Waste-to-Energy Incinerators, Protests Are Mounting

By Michael Standaert

Analysis

Business as Usual: A Resurgence of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

By Philip Fearnside

Field Notes

The Strange Case of the Liana Vine and Its Role in Global Warming

By Daniel Grossman

The Fear Factor: How the Peril of Predators Can Transform a Landscape

By Jim Robbins

A Close-Up Look at the Catastrophic Bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef

By Richard Schiffman

Water

The Vanishing Nile: A Great River Faces a Multitude of Threats

By Richard Conniff

With Climate Change Deniers in Charge, Time for Scientists to Step Up

By Katherine Bagley

Can We Find the World’s Remaining Peatlands in Time to Save Them?

By Fred Pearce

Climate Converts: The Conservatives Who Are Switching Sides on Warming

By Marc Gunther

The Dark Legacy of China’s Drive for Global Resources

By William Laurance

Northern Lights: Large-Scale Solar Power Is Spreading Across the U.S.

By Cheryl Katz

Union Chief Strikes Back at the ‘Insanity’ of Trump’s Budget Cuts at the EPA

By Diane Toomey

The ‘Job-Killing’ Fiction Behind Trump’s Retreat on Fuel Economy Standards

By John DeCicco

Helping China Rethink Its Approach to Conservation

By Diane Toomey

A Death in Pondoland

How a Proposed Strip Mine Brought Conflict to South Africa’s Wild Coast

By Fred Pearce

Technology

A Splash of River Water Now Reveals the DNA of All Its Creatures

By Jim Robbins