United Nations secretary-general António Guterres is proposing a $500-billion annual stimulus package to meet the Sustainable Development Goals to preserve the environment and end poverty and hunger...
An experiment at the University of Cambridge highlights the environmental cost of a well-manicured lawn
Scientists analyzed nine so-called planetary boundaries and found humans are currently transgressing six
An expedition has discovered a remote Fijian cave with thousands of microbats thought to be nearly extinct
New habitats that are emerging as mountain glaciers melt away represent huge ecological shifts and present new challenges for conservation
The U.S. Forest Service faces criticism for projecting that forests could become carbon emitters by 2070 instead of continuing as carbon sinks
President Biden is declaring a national monument around the Grand Canyon, protecting lands important to a dozen Native American tribes and prohibiting new uranium mining claims in the region...
Here’s how food loss and waste threaten the planet at every stage, from harvest to consumption
With their stealth, speed and serrated teeth, sharks are predators to be reckoned with. And that’s before factoring in the cocaine some sharks may be eating...
A new USDA report finds forests could become a major emitter of carbon by 2070
Even small deep-sea mining operations can have a significant effect on marine life, a new study has found, just as such mining operations are poised to begin with no industry rules in place...
Humans prey on more vertebrate species for use as pets and in medicine and other products than we do for food
It takes a lot of water and energy to make negronis, manhattans and margaritas. Could we do with less ice?
Rainbow lorikeets are Australia’s most abundant native bird. What is paralyzing thousands of them every year?
The most comprehensive census yet of the hippos in Colombia that are descended from several imported by drug-cartel leader Pablo Escobar reveals that there could be twice as many of the invasive animals as previous estimates indicated...
Hvaldi, a juvenile beluga whale likely used as a Russian spy, has become so accustomed to human interaction that he’s putting himself in danger and urgently needs our help
Efforts to eradicate invasive rats that have decimated native species on islands around the world are beginning to bear fruit
Bird-strike-deterrent window films don’t work if they’re placed on the indoor side
Vernal pools are safe havens for creatures such as fairy shrimp, and they have lived through the end of the dinosaurs, the breakup of Pangaea and multiple ice ages. But humans are paving them over...
A new program looks to replant warm weather trees in northern Minnesota to help them adjust to a rapidly warming world
