Voices

Climate activism is most effective when it taps into the pain of grieving instead of repeating statistics that overwhelm people into numbness.

A region historically plagued by industrial pollution is overwhelmed with unconventional oil and gas development.

A 10,000-acre logging project threatens endangered species, recreation and nearby communities.

A proposed high-voltage power line threatens a mountain lake and its surrounding wetlands.

Rampant illegal trade is pushing the blue tree monitor lizard toward extinction. These steps can help save it.

Environmentalists and journalists tend to describe beavers in the ways they benefit humans. It’s time to change that perception of nature.

Many nations have created or promised to create marine protected areas, but they don't all carry the same level of protections.

Even protected places face threats from climate change and encroaching development. 

A misguided attempt to control mosquito populations has nearly driven this tiny fish to extinction.

An important new survey — the first nationwide test of new technology — also reveals critical conservation priorities.