Economics

Global shipping is moving invasive species around the world. Can world governments agree on necessary preventative measures?

A new podcast puts BIPOC storytelling front and center in working for solutions to the plastic crisis.

Get your hikes and other recreation in while you can. A new study finds warming temperatures could mean big changes in how we use our public lands.

Investors, foundations, universities and governments pulled their assets from fossil fuel companies in record numbers in October.

Credit-rating agencies say they can discipline companies that behave badly, and they have in some cases, but research reveals negligible progress.

Miami residents already live with the ramifications of climate change. That’s why organizers there have teamed up with other regions to share ideas.

A rise in container-ship accidents adds to the growing marine plastic pollution problem and poses risks to ocean health, wildlife and mariners.

A new report puts into focus for the first time the scope of the state’s drinking-water problems and what it will take to fix them. 

Experts say expanding public lands won’t be enough to achieve science-based calls for more protected areas.

The values of Zimbabwe’s and Namibia’s ivory stockpiles have been grossly overstated, and their proposed sale would lead to another poaching epidemic.