In Policy
Activism
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Conservation
A Balkan Dam Boom Imperils Europe’s Wildest Rivers
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A Death in Pondoland
How a Proposed Strip Mine Brought Conflict to South Africa’s Wild Coast
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Murder in Malaysia
How Protecting Native Forests Cost a Southeast Asian Activist His Life
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Video Contest Winner - Runner Up
An Amazon Tribe’s Deadly Fight To Save Its Land From Logging
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Video Contest Winner - Runner Up
After Denial: How People React to the Hard Reality of Climate Change
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Hard-Pressed Rust Belt Cities Go Green to Aid Urban Revival
Gary, Indiana is joining Detroit and other fading U.S. industrial centers in an effort to turn abandoned neighborhoods and factory sites into gardens, parks, and forests. In addition to the environmental benefits, these greening initiatives may help catalyze an economic recovery.
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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.
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Against the Odds: Saving Rhinos in a Troubled Land
For three decades, Raoul du Toit has led the fight to protect black rhinos in Zimbabwe, a struggle that earned him a Goldman Environmental Prize this week. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, he talks about the challenge of saving this iconic African animal in the face of his country’s economic collapse and a new wave of poaching.