Biodiversity & Conservation

Expedition Retraces a Legendary Explorer’s Travels Through the Once-Pristine Everglades

Taking water samples along the way, just as Hugh de Laussat Willoughby did in 1897, a team hopes to enlarge understanding of modern-day pollutants in a watershed that millions of Floridians now rely upon.

By Amy Green

At COP27, the US Said It Will Lead Efforts to Halt Deforestation. But at Home, the Biden Administration Is Considering Massive Old Growth Logging Projects

By Bob Berwyn

Study Shows Protected Forests Are Cooler

By Bob Berwyn

Countries Want to Plant Trees to Offset Their Carbon Emissions, but There Isn’t Enough Land on Earth to Grow Them

By Katie Surma

How Decades of Hard-Earned Protections and Restoration Reversed the Collapse of California’s Treasured Mono Lake

By Bob Berwyn

Q&A: Douglas Brinkley Rates Presidents for Their Environmental Records, Calling Nixon a ‘Reluctant Environmentalist’ and Donald Trump ‘a Zero on This Issue’

By David Shribman

What’s Good for Birds Is Good for People and the Planet. But More Than Half of Bird Species in the U.S. Are in Decline

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Ocean Protection Around Hawaiian Islands Boosts Far-Flung ‘Ahi Populations

By Bob Berwyn

Climate Change and Habitat Loss is Driving Some Primates Down From the Trees and Toward an Uncertain Future

By Bob Berwyn

Amid Punishing Drought, California Is Set to Adopt Rules to Reduce Water Leaks. The Process has Lagged

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

Swimming Against the Tide, a Retired Connecticut Official Won’t Stop Fighting for the Endangered Atlantic Salmon

By Delaney Dryfoos

Championing Its Heritage, Canada Inches Toward Its Goal of Planting 2 Billion Trees

By David Shribman

In Brazil, the World’s Largest Tropical Wetland Has Been Overwhelmed With Unprecedented Fires and Clouds of Propaganda

By Jill Langlois

Warming Trends: Climate Insomnia, the Decline of Alpine Bumblebees and Cycling like the Dutch and the Danes

By Katelyn Weisbrod

A Court Blocks Oil Exploration and Underwater Seismic Testing Off South Africa’s ‘Wild Coast’

By Katie Surma

Residents and Environmentalists Say a Planned Warehouse District Outside Baltimore Threatens Wetlands and the Chesapeake Bay

By Aman Azhar

Warming Trends: Heat Indexes Soar, a Beloved Walrus is Euthanized in Norway, and Buildings Designed To Go Net-Zero

By Katelyn Weisbrod

The Navy Abandons a Plan to Develop a Golf Course on a Protected Conservation Site Near the Naval Academy in Annapolis

By Aman Azhar

Anne Arundel County Wants the Navy’s Greenbury Point to Remain a Wetland, Not Become an 18-Hole Golf Course

By Aman Azhar