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.

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

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

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 ...

Capitalism Loves Competition. Nature Has Other Ideas. Social Darwinists use “survival of the fittest” as an excuse to privatize land or remove the social safety net. But that fails to recognize how ...

Incredible Journeys: Migratory Sharks on the Move Even as scientists rush to identify the migratory paths of some endangered shark species to help better protect them, climate change and other threats ...

Nicole Williams is an environmental writer, specializing in PFAS contamination and climate change issues. Her work has appeared in Undark and Inside Climate News. Williams and her co-authors’ ...

Messengers of the Eternal: Trees in Life and Literature To plant a tree is to affirm one’s faith in the future, while at the same time reckoning with the sadness inherent in the comparative brevity of ...