Agriculture

There are specific things we can do to make sure good intentions don’t just transfer environmental harms from one place to another.

The new book Burn says we need to rethink our relationship with carbon and embrace one of its solid forms — biochar.

Asking why elephants travel to specific areas can help us to better understand and reduce human-elephant conflict.

The new book The Water Paradox says poor management is preventing us from solving our water woes — and better pricing can help.

Products marketed to kill rodents are instead threatening the lives of the wildlife that eat them as poisons travel up the food chain.

What border communities really need are solutions to address economic, health and climate problems — and the mesquite tree can help.

A new book asks, “Can we feed the world without destroying it?” The answers might surprise you.

The unexpected announcement reverses a plan to move people out of critical protected habitats — and puts the nation’s amazing biodiversity at risk.

2018 was the second-deadliest year on record for the threatened species — and humans are responsible.

Scientists have found that many inland waterways are getting saltier, and that’s helping to mobilize heavy metals and other chemicals from the soil, creating potentially dangerous combinations.