A chance encounter with new research, and a fresh look at an old houseplant, offered me a renewed appreciation of what we’re fighting for.

Conservation victories often look like moments. In reality they’re the visible tip of years — sometimes decades — of work, and we all too often fail to recognize the people responsible.

Who gets to define climate knowledge? An inside look at how the IPCC is trying to make space for Indigenous knowledges.

Planned investments in these mangrove forests — hailed for their carbon-sequestration potential — could further leave people behind and ecosystems at risk.

A meditation on observation, revision, and the quiet thrill of being wrong — and what all of that means for conservation.

Forest managers conduct hundreds of thousands of acres of forest “thinning” projects annually in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and elsewhere, resulting in substantial ecological and financial costs.

The recently enacted High Seas Treaty offers an opportunity to protect the ocean like never before.

Climate change threatens species around the world. At the same time, many animals can help us in the fight against climate change — if we let them.

Hope comes from the stubborn work of refusing to abandon what’s wild. Here’s how to keep moving forward.

Yet Trump and megacorporations are gambling with new nuclear reactors to supercharge artificial intelligence (and profits).