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

Water

In India, Nature’s Power Overwhelms Engineered Wetlands

By Fred Pearce

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

By Fred Pearce

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

By Katherine Bagley

Opinion

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

By Philip Fearnside

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

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

By Fred Pearce

Interview

A Global Ban on Fishing on the High Seas? The Time Is Now

By Richard Schiffman

In the Heart of the Corn Belt, an Uphill Battle for Clean Water

By Mark Schapiro

In India’s Largest City, A Ban on Plastics Faces Big Obstacles

By Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar

Interview

Lessons Learned from Centuries of Indigenous Forest Management

By Richard Schiffman

Shark Mystery: Where Have South Africa’s Great Whites Gone?

By Adam Welz

How Eating Seaweed Can Help Cows to Belch Less Methane

By Judith Lewis Mernit

How Seeds from War-Torn Syria Could Help Save American Wheat

By Mark Schapiro

Can ‘Vaccines’ for Crops Help Cut Pesticide Use and Boost Yields?

By Richard Conniff

Despite Government Pledges, Ravaging of Indonesia’s Forests Continues

By Nithin Coca

Can the World Find Solutions to the Nitrogen Pollution Crisis?

By Fred Pearce

Can Deepwater Aquaculture Avoid the Pitfalls of Coastal Fish Farms?

By Marc Gunther

Climate Connection: Unraveling the Surprising Ecology of Dust

By Jim Robbins

Where Corn Is King, the Stirrings of a Renaissance in Small Grains

By Twilight Greenaway