Voices

Saving these privately owned grasslands is the key to protecting endangered birds and other unique biodiversity.

A modern movement to restore the lake symbolizes the broader contest between unsustainable industrialization and challenges such as climate change.

Home to one of the city’s last intact forests, this privately owned gem could soon face bulldozers and construction.

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

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.

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.

The COVID-19 pandemic gave me a chance to put down my paper field guides and test my preconceptions about some popular digital tools.

The elusive fish, the world’s largest rays, find themselves among the most endangered marine fish in the world.