Nature

Listening to Silence: Why We Must Protect the World’s Quiet Places

By Jenny Morber

Parks vs. People: In Guatemala, Communities Take Best Care of the Forest

By Fred Pearce

Opinion

How Global Regulators Are Selling Out the World’s Largest Tuna

By Jennifer Telesca

How Small Family Forests Can Help Meet the Climate Challenge

By Gabriel Popkin

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

By Fred Pearce

Opinion

When Social Distancing Ends, Will We Rethink the World We Want?

By Bill McKibben

Interview

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

By Richard Schiffman

A Movement Grows to Help Farmers Reduce Pollution and Turn a Profit

By Janet Marinelli

As Warming Alters Alaska, Can a Key Wildlife Refuge Adapt?

By Miranda Weiss

Psychic Numbing: Keeping Hope Alive in a World of Extinctions

By Carl Safina

Opinion

How a Trump Administration Rule Could Kill Millions of Birds

By Ted Williams

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

By Jim Robbins

Ecopsychology: How Immersion in Nature Benefits Your Health

By Jim Robbins

YOUNG WRITERS AWARD WINNER — SECOND PLACE

Song of the Western Ghats: A Green Island in a Crowded Land

By Priyanka Hari Haran

YOUNG WRITERS AWARD WINNER

A River Worth Saving: Who Will Protect the Unheralded Llano?

By Austin Price

Nepal’s Road-Building Spree Pushes into the Heart of the Himalayas

By Broughton Coburn

Opinion

Let It Be: Why We Must Save Alaska’s Pristine Tongass Forest

By Kim Heacox

Could Abandoned Agricultural Lands Help Save the Planet?

By Richard Conniff

Analysis

Are Numbers of Species a True Measure of Ecosystem Health?

By Fred Pearce

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