Ideas

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.

The international community took steps to protect two increasingly rare species this week, providing an important reminder that treating otters as pets harms the iconic animals in the wild.

New research finds that ocean warming has damaged some fisheries and benefited others, although the losers outweigh the winners. But there’s still some encouraging news.

A look at five years of published studies finds that most primate species and habitats remain understudied. There are ways to fix that.