How Paving With Plastic Could Make a Dent in the Global Waste Problem

By Ann Parson

Water Warning: The Looming Threat of the World’s Aging Dams

By Fred Pearce

Opinion

Avoiding a ‘Ghastly Future’: Hard Truths on the State of the Planet

By Carl Safina

Photo Essay

Overview: Transforming Land and Sea for a More Sustainable World

How Non-Native Plants Are Contributing to a Global Insect Decline

By Janet Marinelli

As South Africa Clings to Coal, A Struggle for the Right to Breathe

By Chloe Williams

Interview

Equitable Retreat: The Need for Fairness in Relocating Coastal Communities

By Katherine Bagley

Pollution

Getting the Lead Out: Why Battery Recycling Is a Global Health Hazard

By Fred Pearce

How Small-Scale Loggers Can Help Save Africa’s Tropical Forests

By Fred Pearce

Natural Debate: Do Forests Grow Better With Our Help or Without?

By Fred Pearce

A Flood of Polluting Air Conditioners Hampers Africa’s Climate Efforts

By Peyton Fleming

Why Bioplastics Will Not Solve the World’s Plastics Problem

By Jim Robbins

Will Climate Change Upend Projections of Future Forest Growth?

By Gabriel Popkin

From the Lab to the Field, Agriculture Seeks to Adapt to a Warming World

By Jim Robbins

A Major Oil Pipeline Project Strikes Deep at the Heart of Africa

By Fred Pearce

Why ‘Carbon-Cycle Feedbacks’ Could Drive Temperatures Even Higher

By Fred Pearce

Before the Next Pandemic, an Ambitious Push to Catalog Viruses in Wildlife

By Jim Robbins

Interview

Spillover Warning: How We Can Prevent the Next Pandemic

By Roger Cohn

Interview

Green Violence: ‘Eco-Guards’ Are Abusing Indigenous Groups in Africa

By Richard Schiffman

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

By Jim Robbins

Analysis

Why Clouds Are the Key to New Troubling Projections on Warming

By Fred Pearce