A Big Oil Project in Africa Threatens Fragile Okavango Region

By Heather Richardson

Why the Market for ‘Blue Carbon’ Credits May Be Poised to Take Off

By Nicola Jones

Analysis

Are Huge Tree Planting Projects More Hype than Solution?

By Adam Welz

Indigenous Lands

Why a Big Mining Project Could Wipe Out Rural Villages in Indonesia

By Fred Pearce

Is the ‘Legacy’ Carbon Credit Market a Climate Plus or Just Hype?

By Fred Pearce

Essay

How the Loss of Soil Is Sacrificing America’s Natural Heritage

By Verlyn Klinkenborg

Analysis

Why Drilling the Arctic Refuge Will Release a Double Dose of Carbon

By Oswald Schmitz

An Illicit Trade in Brazil Is Sending Tiny Songbirds to Their Deaths

By Jill Langlois

Assisting Evolution: How Far Should We Go to Help Species Adapt?

By Elizabeth Kolbert

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

On U.S. Public Lands, Can Biden Undo What Trump Has Wrought?

By Jim Robbins

Conservation

Forest Defenders: A Panamanian Tribe Regains Control of Its Lands

By Fred Pearce

Water

As World’s Deltas Sink, Rising Seas Are Far from Only Culprit

By Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar

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

Conservation

Amid Tensions in Myanmar, An Indigenous Park of Peace Is Born

By Fred Pearce

At Sea and in Court, the Fight to Save Right Whales Intensifies

By Rene Ebersole

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

By Fred Pearce

Opinion

Our Burning Planet: Why We Must Learn to Live With Fire

By Stephen J. Pyne

With Activists Silenced, China Moves Ahead on Big Dam Project

By Michael Standaert