Ideas

The decline of a rare cactus in a national park epitomizes the Trump administration’s failure to protect endangered species along the border.

People displaced by drought, sea-level rise, wildfires and other environmental threats are not currently considered “refugees,” like people fleeing violence or oppression. That needs to change.

Around the world this week, people will stop what they’re doing and stand up to call for great action against climate change.

Some people object to placing limitations on trade in threatened species, but new rules will benefit both the gecko and the countries in which it lives.

It all boils down to diluted language that minimizes the perception of how we’re devastating our rivers and other bodies of water.

The author and activist talks about climate hope, grief and her new book, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal . 

Automakers, utilities and appliance makers actually oppose some of the planned deregulation. But antiregulation hardliners are winning out.

Hunting has a bad reputation and is rarely considered in forest governance and conservation strategies. But what if, instead, we tried to learn from it?

Author and activist Maude Barlow talks about the growing global movement to protect public control of water resources.

The Pacific bluefin tuna is vulnerable to extinction and yet fisheries managers may vote to increase the number that can be caught.