PHOTO ESSAY

Eye on the Fertile Crescent: Life Along the Mideast’s Fabled Rivers

By Murat Yazar / Text by Paul Salopek

In Seawater, Researchers See an Untapped Bounty of Critical Metals

By Jim Robbins

How a Solar Revolution in Farming Is Depleting World’s Groundwater

By Fred Pearce

As Armenian Fish Farming Expands, a Pristine Aquifer Is Drying Up

By Lori Youmshajekian

In Scramble for Clean Energy, Europe Is Turning to North Africa

By Fred Pearce

After Comeback, Southern Iraq’s Marshes Are Now Drying Up

By Wil Crisp

Solution or Band-Aid? Carbon Capture Projects Are Moving Ahead

By Nicola Jones

Can Cloud Seeding Help Quench the Thirst of the U.S. West?

By James Dinneen

Analysis

Are Huge Tree Planting Projects More Hype than Solution?

By Adam Welz

Opinion

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

By Carl Safina

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

Analysis

As Climate Change Worsens, A Cascade of Tipping Points Looms

By Fred Pearce

Lawless Ocean: The Link Between Human Rights Abuses and Overfishing

By Ian Urbina

Climate Whiplash: Wild Swings in Extreme Weather Are on the Rise

By Jim Robbins

Analysis

Are Numbers of Species a True Measure of Ecosystem Health?

By Fred Pearce

Opinion

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

By Carl Safina

Turkey’s Dam-Building Spree Continues, At Steep Ecological Cost

By Paul Hockenos

In Israel, Questions Are Raised about a Forest that Rises from the Desert

By Fred Pearce

As Water Scarcity Increases, Desalination Plants Are on the Rise

By Jim Robbins

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

By Fred Pearce