Here are 12 of our favorite environmental commentaries of the past year, addressing Indigenous rights, coral reefs, activism, ...

We asked conservation researchers around the world to send us their favorite papers of 2025. They address the planet’s most ...

Before ending the year, we wanted to highlight this eclectic assortment of reading gems we couldn’t fit into our earlier book ...

Proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act and park staffing cuts are putting the endangered coastal bird in danger.

Yet Trump and megacorporations are gambling with new nuclear reactors to supercharge artificial intelligence (and profits).

If spandrels remind us to look for unintended byproducts in organisms, the metaphor helps us analyze our own conservation ...

Forests, soil, plastic waste, war debris, and a darker ocean also appear on the annual ‘horizon scan’ addressing conservation ...

Another environmental catastrophe season brought destruction and death to North America this summer. Amid extreme heatwaves and weather, fires raged in northern and western Canada. In Manitoba alone ...

The global annual production of plastics rose to 400 million metric tons in 2022 and is projected to double by 2050. Many items produced are single-use, and less than 10% of plastic waste is recycled.

And it’s not alone: A 2019 review of graveyard biodiversity identified 140 protected species in cemeteries around the world. They include several species of bats and orchids, and remnants of tallgrass ...

Grace Dougan is a graduate from the University of Illinois, where she studied political science with an academic focus and interest in environmental science. These interests compounded with her ...