A few scraggly trees on a pollution-filled street

Egyptians face worsening threats from heat and pollution. So why is the country cutting down thousands of healthy trees?

A few scraggly trees on a pollution-filled street

Egyptians face worsening threats from heat and pollution. So why is the country cutting down thousands of healthy trees?

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Bulldozers push sand at a beach

Taking sand from one place to save another often creates more problems — but there are ways to fix that.

Voting sticker on leaves

Voting on election day is job one, but the planet needs your civic commitment every other day of the year, too.

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A lion cub stands on a sandy background

…and other interesting new research that crossed our paths in the past few weeks, including a look at ecotourism land grabs.

Current plans to update our 152-year-old mining laws fail to redress centuries of mineral-extractive colonialism.

As funding drops and institutions change, the study of plants appears to be withering on the vine. That’s letting critical skills go extinct.

"I Voted" stickers

If you’re displaced by wildfire, a hurricane, or other extreme weather, here’s how to cast your ballot.

A Tasmanian devil stands on a log with out-of-focus greenery behind

Names matter. When we fear something, it becomes psychologically easier to withhold empathy for it or, worse, kill it. Nobody feels sorry for the devil.

A tattered Zimbabe flag in black and white

First used as a bioweapon four decades ago, anthrax outbreaks continue to worsen as the country gets warmer and wetter.

A herd of wood bison at the Yukon Wildlife Preserve.

Started by one of Yukon’s most colorful characters in the 1960s, the Yukon Wildlife Preserve still helps rehabilitate injured animals and sends a message about living with wildlife.

A black-and-white image of a stethoscope on a cloth

For many Black children, asthma and other health problems are ever-present companions in neighborhoods located near dumps, factories, and highways.

A horse grazes near a family, a yurt and a tent against the Kyrgyz mountains.

As mining operations destroy millennia-old glaciers, Kyrgyzstani director Begaly Nargozu’s new film reflects a disappearing landscape and culture.

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