As funding drops and institutions change, the study of plants appears to be withering on the vine. That’s letting critical skills go extinct.

The first time I visited Peehee Mu’huh, mining for lithium had already begun. I was there in the fall of 2023 as part of my work with People of Red Mountain, descendants of the Fort McDermitt ...

Nick Engelfried is an environmental educator and freelance journalist based in Washington state whose work has appeared in Waging Nonviolence, In These Times, Columbia Insight and numerous other ...

If you’re displaced by wildfire, a hurricane, or other extreme weather, here’s how to cast your ballot. This story by Lyndsey Gilpin & Jake Bittle was originally published by Grist. Sign up for ...

Here are 12 of our favorite environmental commentaries of the past year, addressing Indigenous rights, coral reefs, activism, ...

We asked conservation researchers around the world to send us their favorite papers of 2025. They address the planet’s most ...

Before ending the year, we wanted to highlight this eclectic assortment of reading gems we couldn’t fit into our earlier book ...

If spandrels remind us to look for unintended byproducts in organisms, the metaphor helps us analyze our own conservation ...

John R. Platt is the editor of The Revelator and an award-winning environmental journalist whose work has appeared in dozens of publications around the world. His “Extinction Countdown” column has run ...

Proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act and park staffing cuts are putting the endangered coastal bird in danger.

Yet Trump and megacorporations are gambling with new nuclear reactors to supercharge artificial intelligence (and profits).