Ideas

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

As new technologies supercharge the field of bioacoustics, researchers can better listen to environmental changes — and use the information to guide conservation efforts.

One of the world’s oldest and rarest trees survives at a secret gorge in Australia, but it still faces many threats — from fire to fungi.

A shiny black insect returns from the dead and inspires intercontinental collaboration to make its way back home.

Every crisis is connected. We must address the biodiversity crisis, the climate emergency, and poverty and injustice at the same time.

A new book looks at efforts to recover dwindling populations and what more is needed.

Conservationists racing to save one of Hawai‘i’s last honeycreeper species get creative, allowing birds to choose their own mates.

Climate activism is most effective when it taps into the pain of grieving instead of repeating statistics that overwhelm people into numbness.

A region historically plagued by industrial pollution is overwhelmed with unconventional oil and gas development.

“Climate change is real and it is here, and it’s not going away. We need your help,” writes Joëlle Gergis in the new book Humanity’s Moment.