We know more than ever about the abundance of life in the soil. Now we have to step up to save it.

Experts say previous outbreaks should have taught us how to avoid new ones, like the one that’s killing millions of birds right now.

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

Seven new environmental books offer practical advice, lessons from successful conservation projects and inspiration in troubled times.

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

A new study hopes to inspire water managers — and the rest of us — to begin planning for how climate change will dramatically reduce snowpack.

Wetlands can help remove nutrient pollution causing low-oxygen “dead zones.” But how much benefit we reap depends a lot on placement, a new study finds. 

Pesticides, sewage, mining waste, air pollution and trash — these new books address the toxic elements in our society.

The Western drought has exacerbated a water crisis, years in the making, that threatens the health of millions of birds — and so much more.

The American West contains 620,000 miles of fencing, threatening the migration of pronghorn, mule deer and other species.