Indigenous Peoples

An upcoming project would change the flow of the Mississippi River and its sediment to make up for land the coast is losing due to climate change and sea-level rise.

Protecting women’s rights and the environment go hand-in-hand in these new books, which also celebrate female leaders and scientists.

I became a plaintiff in a lawsuit for the Clear Lake hitch — a fish I’ve never seen. As the species quickly disappears, how much longer will it swim the waters of California?

A new book digs through dark caves and historical documents to tell the story of the now-extinct giant short-faced bear, which disappeared around the time of the mammoths.

Researchers found that people don't have to be right next to oil and gas fields to experience respiratory distress from flaring.

Community ecologist Cristina Eisenberg explains how we can use both Native and western science to help solve our toughest environmental problems.

Treeline, a new book by Ben Rawlence, explains how climate change is causing far-reaching shifts in one of our most important ecosystems.

Any work to achieve human-rights gains will be upended unless we address our climate and biodiversity crises.

A new legal theory proposes granting property rights to wildlife to protect them from habitat destruction.

The combined extinctions of Hawai‘i’s biodiversity and elements of Hawaiian culture represent the great unravelling of an eco-civilization.