Why We’re Behind on Saving the World
The United Nations' sustainable development goals have two critical problems: they contradict one another, and they focus on economic growth.
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Inside Myanmar’s Incendiary and Illegal Charcoal Trade
A year-long investigation into the multi-million-dollar charcoal market and how it moves from the villages of Myanmar into Chinese smelters.
A Snapshot of Brazil’s Threatened Land Defenders
Brazil's diverse range of land defenders are holding back against illegal logging simply by living as they do.
How Industrialization Brought About the Decline of Vertebrate Species
New research hints that contemporary habitat losses may have initiated population declines of around 95 percent in some…
Why Is Asia So Coal Crazy?
Simple: It's a cheap way to power manufacturing plants, according to a new study. And that bodes poorly for the environment.
Save the Honeybee, Sterilize the Earth
A decade ago, people started panicking about the collapse of the honeybee population and the crash of our food supply. But today there are more honeybees than there were then. We have engineered our way to a frenzied and precarious new normal.
The Fescue Conundrum: Think Grass-Fed Beef Is Natural? It’s Time to Think Again
It may be better than the alternative, but it’s entirely disingenuous for producers and consumers to justify eating grass-fed beef on the essentialist grounds that it was “meant to be” that way.