OnEarth

Environmental pioneer James Gustave Speth says the fights for democracy and nature should join forces.

• By Brian Palmer

Property owners fight wind farms because of their aesthetics, but the numbers are in: They have no effect on property values.

• By Brian Palmer

This year could determine the future of our civilization.

• By Brian Palmer

Critical partnerships between organisms are breaking down as different species respond to new dangers in different ways and on different schedules.

• By Jason Bittel

Who's to blame for the modern antibiotics crisis? It started with the same guys who invented Spam.

• By Ted Genoways

India's new Prime Minister Narendra Modi is known as a "big thinker" when it comes to energy. But in his country's case, could thinking big be a huge mistake?

• By George Black

A conversation with Bristol County, Massachusetts, District Attorney Sam Sutter, who dropped steep charges against two climate change protesters.

• By Brian Palmer

Oil pipeline projects across America are speeding forward without environmental review.

• By Susan Cosier

When it comes to designing wildlife corridors, our most brilliant analytical minds are still no match for Mother Nature. But we're getting there.

• By Kim Tingley

California wants you to pay for your plastic bags. (FYI: That’s not an infringement on your constitutional rights.)

• By Brian Palmer

Next time you find yourself in an airplane, consider keeping your phone turned off and the window open.

• By Bruce Stutz

April was the iciest month since record-keeping began in 1973.

• By Susan Cosier

The cost of fighting wildfires this year is predicted to go over budget by hundreds of millions of dollars.

• By Jason Bittel

As oil trains derail across the United States, a windswept—and vulnerable—stretch of Montana’s Glacier National Park underscores the folly of transporting crude by rail.

• By Elizabeth Royte