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

Opinion

Why Brazil’s New President Poses an Unprecedented Threat to the Amazon

By Philip Fearnside

Redrawing the Map: How the World’s Climate Zones Are Shifting

By Nicola Jones

Conflicting Data: How Fast Is the World Losing its Forests?

By Fred Pearce

Interview

A Global Ban on Fishing on the High Seas? The Time Is Now

By Richard Schiffman

Interview

Lessons Learned from Centuries of Indigenous Forest Management

By Richard Schiffman

Should Rivers Have Rights? A Growing Movement Says It’s About Time

By Jens Benöhr and Patrick J. Lynch