Ideas

Animals, plants, and fungi depend on this humble tree, but its future — and theirs — is all but certain.

The unanticipated environmental effects of inhalers underscore the contradictions of piecemeal climate solutions.

For Wan Faridah Akmal Jusoh, the night skies hold a sense of natural wonder and offer opportunities for citizen science.

Local communities strive to protect local forests and headwaters that include some of the Amazon River’s most important water sources.

Insurers are pulling out of areas prone to climate risk — even as they continue to cover the fossil-fuel companies contributing to that risk.

Before the next global meeting on plastics, we need more transparency and disclosure around the corporate stakeholders wielding influence there.

These butterflies are no longer present in their namesake range, but a collaboration aims to bring them back.

Rising sea levels may cause the local extinction of three small, threatened vertebrates in southern Brazil.

New research shows how policies blocking cleaner energy sources, often inspired by persistent disinformation, harm the communities that adopt them.

For this national symbol of New Caledonia and one-of-a-kind avian species, time may be running short.