Ideas

The United Nations has an opportunity to address plastic pollution on an international level. Will it finally act?

Acres of plastic and gear for an industrial geoduck installation jeopardize a small, fragile lagoon in the Salish Sea.

Treeline, a new book by Ben Rawlence, explains how climate change is causing far-reaching shifts in one of our most important ecosystems.

California’s stressed blue oak woodlands abound with beauty and teem with uncertainty.

“We need to make the time to water a new kind of wild empathy,” writes the cofounder of the Church of Stop Shopping.

The coral reef ecosystems in Brazil’s largest coastal Marine Protected Area need defending against overfishing, tourism and global warming.

This heavily exploited species just got a temporary reprieve, but new protections come with a ticking clock.

It’s time to overhaul the chemical industry — for the sake of fenceline communities and the rest of the planet.

The loss of biodiversity around the planet comes with very human costs, I tell the hosts of The Silent Why podcast.

The cliff-growing Brighamia insignis was pronounced extinct in the wild in 2020, but it persists thanks to the hard work of botanical gardens and other collections.