Topic - Population

Nature

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

By Jenny Morber

Pedestrians and bicyclists on Castellana Avenue, which was closed to vehicles, in downtown Madrid on May 10.

The Pandemic Has Taken Cars Off Urban Streets. Will It Last?

By Cheryl Katz

Opinion

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

By Bill McKibben

Chinese officials seized civet cats in a wildlife market in Guangzhou in 2004 to prevent the spread of the SARS virus.

Interview

Spillover Warning: How We Can Prevent the Next Pandemic

By Roger Cohn

Smoke from wildfires creates an orange haze behind the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.

Letter from California

In an Era of Pandemics and Fires, Global Action Is the Only Hope

By Jacques Leslie

Ecopsychology: How Immersion in Nature Benefits Your Health

By Jim Robbins

A bridge under construction across the Karnali River near the village of Tumkot, Nepal in October 2018.

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

By Broughton Coburn

Why India Is Making Progress in Slowing Its Population Growth

By Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar

As the Monsoon and Climate Shift, India Faces Worsening Floods

By Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar

A Chicago resident struggles with triple-digit temperatures during a heat wave in 2012.

Can We Turn Down the Temperature on Urban Heat Islands?

By Jim Morrison

An electric bus in service on the streets of Medellín, Colombia.

An Increasingly Urbanized Latin America Turns to Electric Buses

By Maria Gallucci

Trees grow on former terraced rice fields in Gulmi District, Nepal.

In Nepal, Out-Migration Is Helping Fuel a Forest Resurgence

By Peter Gill

CRISIS ON THE COLORADO: PART IV

In Era of Drought, Phoenix Prepares for a Future Without Colorado River Water

By Jim Robbins / Photography by Ted Wood

After two decades of drought, Lake Mead, which is impounded by Hoover Dam, is just 40 percent full. A “bathtub ring” visible along the edges of the lake show how far its water levels have dropped.

Crisis on the Colorado: Part II

On the Water-Starved Colorado River, Drought Is the New Normal

By Jim Robbins / Photography by Ted Wood

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

Mexicali, Mexico / Calexico, California, United States

From High Above, A New Way of Seeing Our Urban Planet

By Katherine Bagley

Interview

Understanding How Elephants Think Is Key to Protecting Them

By Richard Schiffman

E360 VIDEO CONTEST WINNER - THIRD PLACE

Off the African Coast, a Struggle to Revive a Battered Fishery

Air conditioners on a residential building in China.

Population Boom

Cooling a Warming Planet: A Global Air Conditioning Surge

By Stan Cox

As Alberta’s Tar Sands Boom, Foes Target Project’s Lifelines

Exploiting North America’s largest oil deposit has destroyed vast stretches of Canada's boreal forest, arousing the ire of those opposed to this massive development of fossil fuels. Now those opponents are battling the Keystone XL pipeline, which would pass through environmentally sensitive Western lands as it moves the oil to market.

By Jim Robbins

What’s With the Weather? Is Climate Change to Blame?

One of the thorniest questions facing climate scientists is whether human-induced climate change is leading to more heat waves, floods, and extreme weather events. Now, employing increasingly sophisticated methods of studying weather extremes, climatologists say they are closer to answering that key question.

By Alyson Kenward