Op-Eds

The captive predator industry threatens the welfare of thousands of big cats kept for entertainment, hunting, and commercial trade of live animals and their body parts.

To solve plastic pollution, we need nontoxic, reusable materials — not more single-use disposable products.

Women play a critical role in sustainable development, combatting climate change, and taking care of our natural resources. But industry needs to do more to support them.

By providing both mitigation and adaption, dam removal can lower greenhouse gas emissions and restore carbon sinks.

As the United Kingdom proposes to ban trophy imports, hunting proponents ramp up their efforts to dismiss their critics.

New international agreements are a step in the right direction, but the real work to ensure robust and equitable protections is just beginning. 

What if governments finally decided to act on climate change and environmental degradation?

Art raises awareness, but environmental organizations too often fail to engage with artists or their own creativity.

Thousands of people stood up for these at-risk species, proof that we must combine science with an ethic of restraint enforced by public outcry.

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