Ideas

Subsidized water cultivated the West, but this required becoming increasingly profligate with the region’s scarcest resource.

The annual Black Friday ode to commercialism and overconsumption sits at the core of our ongoing destruction of Earth’s ecosystems. We can flip the script.

The midterms may have avoided a red wave, but there’s still blood (and some anti-science conspiracy theorists) in the water.

Black people like nature, too. But you wouldn’t know it from looking at outdoor magazines — at least not before Outdoor Afro got started.

Disadvantaged communities have suffered disproportionately from underinvestment in clean and affordable water. That could change with legislation passed last year.

Environmentalists and journalists tend to describe beavers in the ways they benefit humans. It’s time to change that perception of nature.

A new book about efforts to save endangered snails in Hawai‘i provides valuable insight into threats to global biodiversity.

Both approval and ranked choice voting put fire under the feet of elected officials to do the right thing for the environment — or risk being voted out.

Killing an endangered species is a heinous crime, but the language around the act requires a refocus away from colonialization.

A squid biologist takes to the streets — and Skype — to share scientific knowledge.