Listening to Nature: The Emerging Field of Bioacoustics

By Adam Welz

Opinion

The Real Case for Saving Species: We Don’t Need Them, But They Need Us

By Carl Safina

Amazon Watch: What Happens When the Forest Disappears?

By Fred Pearce

An Increasingly Urbanized Latin America Turns to Electric Buses

By Maria Gallucci

Interview

Will Deforestation and Warming Push the Amazon to a Tipping Point?

By Fen Montaigne

E360 Video Contest Winner — Second Place

In Ecuador, One Man’s Mission to Restore a Piece of the Rainforest

Indigenous Maize: Who Owns the Rights to Mexico’s ‘Wonder’ Plant?

By Martha Pskowski

As Climate Changes, Colombia’s Small Coffee Farmers Pay the Price

By Richard Schiffman

Scientists Zero in on Trees as a Surprisingly Large Source of Methane

By Fred Pearce

Geoengineer the Planet? More Scientists Now Say It Must Be an Option

By Fred Pearce

Bee Alert: Is a Controversial Herbicide Harming Honeybees?

By Michael Balter

Analysis

Why Green Pledges Will Not Create the Natural Forests We Need

By Fred Pearce

Analysis

Will Large Protected Areas Save the Oceans or Politicize Them?

By Fred Pearce

Species Sleuths: Amateur Naturalists Spark a New Wave of Discovery

By Jessica Leber

How Crowdsourcing Seeds Can Help Farmers Adapt to Climate Change

By Virginia Gewin

Development

The Hidden Environmental Toll of Mining the World’s Sand

By Fred Pearce

Analysis

How China’s Big Overseas Initiative Threatens Global Climate Progress

By Isabel Hilton

Sparing vs Sharing: The Great Debate Over How to Protect Nature

By Fred Pearce

From High Above, A New Way of Seeing Our Urban Planet

By Katherine Bagley

Analysis

After a Long Boom, an Uncertain Future for Big Dam Projects

By Jacques Leslie

Escalator to Extinction: How Mountain Species Are Imperiled by Warming

By Richard Conniff