Development

The Hidden Environmental Toll of Mining the World’s Sand

By Fred Pearce

Crisis on the Colorado: Part III

Running Dry: New Strategies for Conserving Water on the Colorado

By Jim Robbins / Photography by Ted Wood

The Rosewood Trade: An Illicit Trail from Forest to Furniture

By Sandy Ong and Edward Carver

Fire-Induced Storms: A New Danger from the Rise in Wildfires

By Ed Struzik

Opinion

A Highway Megaproject Tears at the Heart of New Guinea’s Rainforest

By William Laurance

Crisis on the Colorado: Part I

The West’s Great River Hits Its Limits: Will the Colorado Run Dry?

By Jim Robbins / Photography by Ted Wood

As Disease Ravages Coral Reefs, Scientists Scramble for Solutions

By Ret Talbot

In India’s Fast-Growing Cities, a Grassroots Effort to Save the Trees

By Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar

Water

In India, Nature’s Power Overwhelms Engineered Wetlands

By Fred Pearce

As Polar Bear Attacks Increase in Warming Arctic, a Search for Solutions

By Gloria Dickie

Sparing vs Sharing: The Great Debate Over How to Protect Nature

By Fred Pearce

Analysis

After a Long Boom, an Uncertain Future for Big Dam Projects

By Jacques Leslie

‘Rhino Coin’: Can a Cryptocurrency Help Save Africa’s Rhinoceroses?

By Adam Welz

Escalator to Extinction: How Mountain Species Are Imperiled by Warming

By Richard Conniff

Opinion

Why Brazil’s New President Poses an Unprecedented Threat to the Amazon

By Philip Fearnside

Is Warming Bringing a Wave of New Diseases to Arctic Wildlife?

By Ed Struzik

Interview

Understanding How Elephants Think Is Key to Protecting Them

By Richard Schiffman

Redrawing the Map: How the World’s Climate Zones Are Shifting

By Nicola Jones

Extreme Botany: The Precarious Science of Endangered Rare Plants

By Janet Marinelli

Beetle Mania: The Nasty Insect That Is Killing the Trees of Johannesburg

By Adam Welz

Conflicting Data: How Fast Is the World Losing its Forests?

By Fred Pearce