Habitat Destruction

Atlantic salmon are perilously close to extinction in the United States. Taking down a few dams could go a long way to aiding their recovery, experts say.

Historical pressures combined with new threats from climate change have pushed more than a dozen species close to extinction.

The company claims to be restoring its former diamond mines to nature. My research revealed a still-barren landscape and shattered lives.

An Indigenous-led resistance raises the alarm about a tar-sands pipeline that would cut through treaty territory of Anishinaabe people, threatening wild rice, fresh water and the climate.

Writer Kathleen Dean Moore turns her ear to nature’s sounds and what we’re losing as species disappear.

The Biden administration has an opportunity — and a responsibility — to help save the coastal ecosystems that protect us.

Planting milkweed can help monarch butterflies, but new research shows that there’s still a lot we can learn about how to do that effectively.

Dozens of frogs, fish, orchids and other species — many unseen for decades — may no longer exist due to humanity’s destructive effects on the planet.

Alabama’s Mobile River basin has the most aquatic biodiversity in the country. But we’re in danger of losing it before we even know what’s there.

The United States must grapple with a legacy of 90,000 dams, many unsafe or unwanted.