Human Health

Kanab, a small Utah town that’s home to the famous Best Friends Animal Society, took an unconventional path to face down a frac sand mine that threatened the region’s aquifer.

A vulnerable culture living in a severely degraded section of the Colombian Amazon is in desperate need of international respect and support.

Books out this month also address protecting pollinators, Florida panthers and other endangered species.

From the extinction crisis to plastic pollution and the 2020 election, these are some of the stories we expect to dominate headlines in the year ahead.

From the extinction crisis to environmental justice, these articles showcase what we have to lose and how people are working to make a brighter future.

Construction of the largest solid-waste landfill in Europe threatens to permanently damage the health of Russia’s rural citizens and trash the country’s reputation.

The Bureau of Land Management relocation to Grand Junction reflects a widespread pattern of destabilization under President Trump.

New legislative efforts to ban plastics are important, but a recent court ruling in Texas reminds us that enforcing existing laws is a crucial part of the plastics fight.

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

Anthropocene: The Human Epoch takes viewers on a hypnotic worldwide tour of the destruction we have wrought.