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.

Neil’s songs and the Chrome Hearts band — and the whole community of concert-workers — operate in an efficient kind of love. We, in turn, wanted to find a new kind of more impactful activism in the ...

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

‘Megadrought’ and ‘Aridification’ — Understanding the New Language of a Warming World New research reveals a creeping, permanent dryness expanding across the United States. It’s much more than ...

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 ...

Recovering urban wildlife isn’t just about protecting a city’s parks and rivers, but also making its streets, homes and skyscrapers greener.

It’s time to rethink the American lawn: a landscaping default that sucks up money, water, chemicals, and time.

On Dec. 15, 2024, in a raging storm, two Russian oil tankers carrying more than 9,000 tons of heavy oil collided off the coast of Port Taman in the Kerch Strait in the Black Sea. A video posted to ...