Features

From Obama’s Top Scientist, Words of Caution on Climate

By Elizabeth Kolbert

An Unusually Warm Arctic Year: Sign of Future Climate Turmoil?

By Fen Montaigne

Why the U.S. Coal Industry and Its Jobs Are Not Coming Back

By James Van Nostrand

Climate Consequences

How Warming Is Threatening the Genetic Diversity of Species

By Jim Robbins

Climate Politics

With Trump, China Emerges As Global Leader on Climate

By Isabel Hilton

Full Speed Ahead

Shipping Plans Grow as Arctic Ice Fades

By Ed Struzik

Living World

Are Trees Sentient Beings? Certainly, Says German Forester

By Richard Schiffman

Forum

Obama’s Environmental Legacy: How Much Can Trump Undo?

By Yale Environment 360

Politics

What a Trump Win Means For the Global Climate Fight

By David G. Victor

Activism

At Standing Rock, A Battle Over Fossil Fuels and Land

By Katherine Bagley

How Forensics Are Boosting the Battle Against the Wildlife Trade

By Heather Millar

African Wetlands Project

Are ‘Blue Carbon’ Projects a Win for the Climate and the People?

By Winifred Bird

Ghost Forests

How Rising Seas Are Killing Southern U.S. Woodlands

By Roger Drouin

On College Campuses, Signs of Progress on Renewable Energy

By Ben Goldfarb

Photo Essay

How Pollution is Devastating an Indonesian Lake

By Binsar Bakkara

The Greenhouse Gas Riddle

What is Causing the Recent Rise in Methane Emissions?

By Fred Pearce

The Moth Snowstorm

Finding True Value in Nature’s Riches

By Roger Cohn

Solutions

Offshore Wind Energy is Booming in Europe

By Christian Schwägerl

In New Ozone Alert, a Warning of Harm to Plants and People

By Jim Robbins

Dispatch

An Indian Doctor Seeks a Cure for A Bird Nearing Extinction

By Moushumi Basu

Artificial Islands

The Rising Environmental Toll of China’s Offshore Island Grab

By Mike Ives