Scientists have typically pointed to habitat loss as the key factor behind the worldwide drop in bird populations worldwide, but climate change poses a second, closely linked threat.

Unchecked development is rapidly dismantling the life-support system for the entire North Indian subcontinent.

As the island faces continuous urbanization, this rare shrub has gone unnoticed and ignored for decades, shrinking into ...

From wildly popular to nearly forgotten, some of our cemeteries play an unexpected role in fostering biodiversity — and may ...

As we prepare to look for life in other solar systems, we should also look inward at what we’re doing to our home planet.

Aquaculture is not the sustainable or ethical solution to food insecurity that industry or governments claim, nor is it a ...

Bombs and bullets are just the beginning.

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Acclaimed Lion Conservationist Paola Bouley on Her Second Chance: ‘It Feels Like a Homecoming’ Bouley’s new project at Macossa-Tambara in Mozambique is part of an effort to double the African lion ...

John R. Platt is the editor of The Revelator and an award-winning environmental journalist whose work has appeared in dozens of publications around the world. His “Extinction Countdown” column has run ...

Anna Pujol-Mazzini is an investigative journalist, audio producer, fact-checker and fixer based in Paris, France. She is a former international correspondent for Reuters, AFP and The Daily Telegraph ...