In Nepal, Publicly Burning Confiscated Items Is a Warning to the Illegal Wildlife Trade
The stockpile included parts from 48 species, including 67 tiger skins, 357 rhino horns, and two sacks of pangolin scales.
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Back-to-Back Bleaching Events May Have Wiped Out Half the Great Barrier Reef
Thirty percent of the coral system was wiped out by warming waters in 2016; another 20 percent died off this year.
Republicans: ‘The EPA Is a Helicopter Mom’
At a House Science Committee hearing on states' role in EPA rule-making, Republicans lamented a supposed parent-child relationship between the federal agency and its state-level counterparts.
Cocaine Traffickers Are Turning Swaths of Central American Rainforest Into Money-Laundering Ranches
Cocaine trafficking—not coca-growing—is responsible for up to 30 percent of the rainforest destruction in Honduras, Guatemala, and Nicaragua.
‘A Matter of Survival’: Talking Existential Climate Threats in Bonn
Earth's most vulnerable nations remind the developed world that climate action is a question of life or death.
Spotlight on Women and the Environment: Laurel Hunt
A series of discussions with attendees and speakers at our conference this week.
Spotlight on Women and the Environment: Wendy Millet
A series of discussions with attendees and speakers at our conference this week.
Spotlight on Women and the Environment: Osprey Orielle Lake
A series of discussions with attendees and speakers at our conference this week.
Spotlight on Women and the Environment: Kristen Hazard
A series of discussions with attendees and speakers at our conference this week.
Spotlight on Women and the Environment: Kelsey Maloney
A series of discussions with attendees and speakers at our conference this week.