Agriculture

Commemorating the 50th Earth Day amid the COVID-19 pandemic offers a chance to look to a sustainable future and embrace the unifying concept of One Health.

Let’s focus on the economic systems that allowed such waste to be created in the first place, while causing needless pollution, animal suffering and threats to human health.

We’ve created a world where parasites and pathogens can run amok. Here are three steps we need to take, as a society, to protect both native species and human health.

Hundreds of blazes could push threatened species closer to extinction. But the roots of Australia’s wildlife crisis are indicative of a much larger problem.

The Trump administration has promised to expand their use, which would make farmers happy. But are consumers aware of biofuels’ potential consequences?

The new book Fibershed explains how to build a textile economy that benefits both people and the planet — and why we desperately need it.

New research in the Salish Sea shows how antibiotic-resistant bacteria is growing in coastal waterways and why it's how to track.

The most widely used class of insecticides is dangerous for much more than its intended target, new research finds.

This month brings important new books by Naomi Klein, photographer Joel Sartore, Jonathan Safran Foer and water activist Maude Barlow.

But here’s the good news: New research finds it was actually six different species, and five still exist — for now.