Agriculture

It’s time to rethink the American lawn: a landscaping default that sucks up money, water, chemicals, and time.

Livestock ranchers receive undue praise and tax dollars while they disregard damage to life on the planet, in a political climate that prioritizes profit.

The country offers six important lessons ahead of hosting next year’s United Nations Biological Diversity Convention.

Toxic algae blooms in Lake Erie. As Toledo tries to clean up, restoring wetlands could help.

Previous support and pledges from the United States have helped to slow forest loss in Brazil. Will Trump reverse that progress?

Beef and soybean agriculture are carving up this massive forest, which spans four countries and has some of the world’s highest deforestation rates.

China’s Great Sparrow Campaign aimed to “conquer nature” but resulted in as many as 75 million human deaths.

More than 50 years after the fall of Portugal’s dictatorship, the authoritarian regime still casts a long shadow over this wildfire-prone country.

First used as a bioweapon four decades ago, anthrax outbreaks continue to worsen as the country gets warmer and wetter.

The Inyambo’s importance to Rwandan culture can’t protect them from threats like diseases, international conflict, and inbreeding.