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

By Elizabeth Kolbert

Opinion

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

By Carl Safina

How Non-Native Plants Are Contributing to a Global Insect Decline

By Janet Marinelli

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

By Rene Ebersole

Opinion

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

By Jennifer Telesca

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

By Fred Pearce

With Temperatures Rising, Can Animals Survive the Heat Stress?

By Jim Robbins

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

Native Species or Invasive? The Distinction Blurs as the World Warms

By Sonia Shah

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

By Priyanka Hari Haran

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

Opinion

On the Northwest’s Snake River, the Case for Dam Removal Grows

By Jacques Leslie

Analysis

Open for Business: The Trump Revolution on America’s Public Lands

By Jim Robbins

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

A Northwest Passage Journey Finds Little Ice and Big Changes

By Ed Struzik