The Australian icon could lose its fight against climate change, disease, habitat destruction and cars — but not if dedicated conservationists get the tools they need to protect the species.

The USDA’s Wildlife Services program slaughters millions of wild animals every year — including endangered species. It doesn’t have to.

States that share the river’s water finalized a big agreement last month, but an even larger challenge determining the river’s future is just around the bend, expert John Fleck explains.

Ranchers pay just $1.35 a month to graze cattle on public lands and national forests. You couldn’t feed a cat or dog for 10 times that amount.

Major reforms are needed to the federal program that assesses flood risk, but Congress just punted — for the 11th time — on an opportunity to fix it.

In her new book Reality Bubble, Ziya Tong explains why many people are willfully ignorant about our food system.

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.