Agriculture

…to read while it’s too hot to do anything else.

Conservationists are working to preserve eastern Montana’s intact prairie and return its assemblage of native wildlife.

New research finds that at least 254 bat species face pressure from hunters, and that could push some of them into extinction.

The musician’s new documentary, Punk Rock Vegan Movie, shines a light on a hidden history of the animal-rights movement.

California’s recent floods show that we aren’t ready for the bigger storms that climate change will bring, an expert warns.

In north Brazil, the combined effects of a hydroelectric dam and earth-shifting livestock have altered the landscape — and upended peoples’ lives.

Soil’s microbial communities keep it healthy, just like the one in our guts. But new research finds we’re not doing a good enough job of protecting it.

Subsidized water cultivated the West, but this required becoming increasingly profligate with the region’s scarcest resource.

Humble ponds have a key role to play in fighting climate change and aiding conservation — but only if we protect them.

Human activities have imperiled our waterways — along with almost one-third of freshwater fish and many other aquatic species.