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Biodiversity & Conservation

At the UN Water Conference, Running to Keep Up with an Ambitious 2030 Goal for Universal Water Rights

Delegates met on water issues for the first time in 46 years, with climate change making action ever more urgent. In some regions, progress must quadruple to provide clean water and sanitation for all by 2030.

By Delaney Dryfoos

Australian water scarcity activist Mina Guli completes her 200th marathon outside UN headquarters, ahead the UN Water Conference, on March 22, 2023, in New York City. Credit: Leonardo Munoz/AFP via Getty Images.
Bluebells bloom in a wood in the Cheshire countryside on April 24, 2015 in Knutsford, England. Credit: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

America’s Forests Are ‘Present and Vanishing at the Same Time’

By Kiley Bense

A dead whale is found on Rockaway Beach in the Queens Borough in New York City, United States on Feb. 17, 2023. Credit: Fatih Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Republicans Propose Nationwide Offshore Wind Ban, Citing Unsubstantiated Links to Whale Deaths

By Kristoffer Tigue

The sun starts to rise behind an offshore wind farm off the Great Yarmouth coastline on July 19, 2006 in Norfolk, England. Credit: Matt Cardy/Getty Images

A New White House Plan Prioritizes Using the Ocean’s Power to Fight Climate Change

By Bob Berwyn

The buds on cherry trees at American University were already plump on March 5. Credit: Emma Ricketts

Washington’s Treasured Cherry Blossoms Prompt Reflection on Local Climate Change

By Emma Ricketts

Maryland, Virginia Race to Save Dwindling Commercial Fisheries in the Chesapeake Bay

By Aman Azhar

Fishermen pull up fish in their gillnet during a midwater pair trawl on the Gulf of Gascony sea, off the coast of France, on Jan. 8, 2020. Protecting high seas ecosystems would also benefit commercial fisheries nearer to the shore by boosting overall fish stocks. Credit: Loic Venance/AFP via Getty Images

Can the New High Seas Treaty Help Limit Global Warming?

By Delaney Dryfoos, Bob Berwyn

Officials examine a dead beached whale on Rockaway beach on Dec. 13, 2022 in the Queens borough of New York City. Credit: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images

Why Saving the Whales Means Saving Ourselves

By Kiley Bense

Aerial view showing the construction of the Mayan Train between Tulum and Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo State, Mexico, on April 14, 2022. Credit: Carlo Echegoyen/AFP via Getty Images

A ‘Rights of Nature’ Fact-Finding Panel to Investigate Mexico’s Tren Maya Railroad for Possible Environmental Violations

By Katie Surma

Jacqueline Echols walks along a trail in Constitution Lakes Park. Echols said that Atlanta's distinctive tree canopy provides "innumerable benefits to the environment and to the community.” Credit: Victoria St. Martin

In Atlanta, Proposed ‘Cop City’ Stirs Environmental Justice Concerns

By Victoria St. Martin

Western Firms Certified as Socially Responsible Trade in Myanmar Teak Linked to the Military Regime

By Scilla Alecci and Jelena Cosic

Timm Martin points out areas that are part of the Jellico Vegetation Management proposal to clear cut and log on 10.000 acres inside the Daniel Boone National Forest. Credit: Jared Hamilton

Kentucky Residents Angered by US Forest Service Logging Plan That Targets Mature Trees

By Marianne Lavelle

People enjoy the sunset on the beach of North Sea near the village of Lakolk, Denmark, on Sept. 3, 2022. Credit: Sergei Gapon/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

What Denmark’s North Sea Coast Can Teach Us About the Virtues of Respecting the Planet

By Kiley Bense

José Pepe Manuyama, who is featured in the documentary film "Stepping Softly on the Earth," stands before a graveyard in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo courtesy of Marcos Colón.

Director Marcos Colón Takes an Intimate Look at Three Indigenous Leaders’ Fight to Preserve Their Ancestral Connection to Nature in the Amazon

By Katie Surma

Pump jacks at the Belridge Oil Field and hydraulic fracking site in Kern County, California. Credit: Citizens of the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Fracking Wastewater Causes Lasting Harm to Key Freshwater Species

By Liza Gross

Sea World employees prepare a sling for Corleone, a rehabilitated manatee, to be released to his original home at Blue Springs State Park in Orange City, Florida on Jan. 17, 2022. Credit: Zack Wittman for The Washington Post via Getty Images

Nursing Florida’s Ailing Manatees Back to Health

By Amy Green, WMFE

The Cacique Nelson, of the tribe of Guaranis, walks in a deforested area of the old Atlantic Forest on Jan. 26, 2017. Credit: Diego Herculano/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Study Documents a Halt to Deforestation in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest After Indigenous Communities Gain Title to Their Territories

By Katie Surma

Residents work to push back wet mud that trapped cars and invaded some houses on Jan. 11, 2023 in Piru, east of Fillmore, California. A series of powerful storms pounded California in striking contrast to the past three years of severe to extreme drought experienced by most of the state. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Confronting California’s Water Crisis

By Liza Gross

An employee of Northern Dynasty Mines Inc. mans a drilling rig in the Pebble Mine East site near the village of Iliamna, Alaska. Credit: Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

After Two Decades of Controversy, the EPA Uses Its ‘Veto’ Power to Kill the Pebble Mine in Southwest Alaska

By Max Graham

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