The world still faces a growing extinction crisis, but that hasn’t stopped conservation efforts or individual overachievers. Here are some of the animals who made a difference.

In 2023 wild animals stretched boundaries, set records, and inspired conservation across the world.

As demand for electric vehicles ramps up, environmental stumbling blocks have emerged.

The health risks from tiny airborne particulate matter may soon face stricter federal regulation. But improving air quality remains a complex challenge.

A massive new plastics plant will soon start operating in Pennsylvania, even as support grows for international limits on plastic production.

Global shipping is moving invasive species around the world. Can world governments agree on necessary preventative measures?

A rise in container-ship accidents adds to the growing marine plastic pollution problem and poses risks to ocean health, wildlife and mariners.

Experts say the new administration can jumpstart climate protections by taking on rising methane emissions, but it won’t be easy or quick.

A recent string of massive landslides in Alaska and around the world bears the fingerprint of climate change.

A summer of extremes leaves sobering questions about the state of Earth’s largest store of ice, capable of inundating coastlines worldwide as it melts.