Conservation

In Defense of Biodiversity: Why Protecting Species from Extinction Matters

By Carl Safina

Habitat on the Edges: Making Room for Wildlife in an Urbanized World

By Richard Conniff

Climate Connection: Unraveling the Surprising Ecology of Dust

By Jim Robbins

How Big Water Projects Helped Trigger Africa’s Migrant Crisis

By Fred Pearce

Opinion

How a Dam Building Boom Is Transforming the Brazilian Amazon

By Philip Fearnside

Analysis

Trump’s Judges: A Second Front in the Environmental Rollback

By Elizabeth Shogren

Conservation

In a Rare U.S. Preserve, Water Pressures Mount As Development Closes In

By Bruce Stutz

How A Surge in Visitors Is Overwhelming America’s National Parks

By Jim Robbins

Analysis

Business as Usual: A Resurgence of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

By Philip Fearnside

Can We Find the World’s Remaining Peatlands in Time to Save Them?

By Fred Pearce

The Dark Legacy of China’s Drive for Global Resources

By William Laurance

Helping China Rethink Its Approach to Conservation

By Diane Toomey

A Death in Pondoland

How a Proposed Strip Mine Brought Conflict to South Africa’s Wild Coast

By Fred Pearce

Murder in Malaysia

How Protecting Native Forests Cost a Southeast Asian Activist His Life

By Fred Pearce

Firing Line

In Honduras, Defending Nature Is a Deadly Business

By Fred Pearce

No Longer Wild

How Natural World Heritage Sites Are Being Spoiled

By Richard Conniff

Science

A New Way of Understanding What Makes a River Healthy

By Jim Robbins

Photo Essay

How Pollution is Devastating an Indonesian Lake

By Binsar Bakkara

Video Contest Winner - Runner Up

An Amazon Tribe’s Deadly Fight To Save Its Land From Logging

By Adam Spencer

Views

Los Angeles Aims to Revitalize a Concrete River

Vanishing Act

What’s Causing the Sharp Decline in Insects, and Why It Matters

By Christian Schwägerl