Anti-abortion advocates, including Republican lawmakers and state officials, want the EPA to review mifepristone as a water ...

How making the case for environmentalism to oppositional people creates shared interests and relieves social tensions in ...

Many pastoralist households see little benefit from conservancy revenue, despite millions of dollars flowing into the region.

Voracious demand for fish oil and guano puts the squeeze on shrinking populations of Humboldt penguins in Peru.

Global problems are rarely solved by one person or invention. The Ocean Cleanup didn’t work, for the reasons experts said it ...

This excerpt from the new book The Earth Said Remember Me looks at the shifting baselines around the United States’ national ...

Most species on the brink of extinction are on the Endangered Species list because there is almost no place left for them to ...

Ebola is once again making headlines and has been declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern — the World Health Organization’s highest level of alert — after cases crossed the border ...

Two incidents that generated worldwide headlines in recent months have called attention to the often-overlooked plight of India’s captive elephants. In the first, an elderly female elephant died three ...

Environmentalists, myself included, pay close attention to gloomy topics like species extinctions and Earth’s dwindling life-support systems. It’s not for the love of dark matters that we keep tabs on ...

New Environmental Books: Spring-to-Summer Reads to Brighten and Enlighten Whether you decide on a vacation or staycation, plan on finding inspiration in these books about owls, reptiles, climate ...