Stories by Richard Schiffman

Cary Fowler, the U.S. State Department’s leading figure on global hunger, explains a new way to improve nutritious food supply

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says he’ll stop illegal destruction of rain forests allowed under former president Jair Bolsonaro. Will Brazilians support him?

Christine Todd Whitman says the Court is pushing a political agenda

Marine biologist Daniel Pauly did a turnabout from helping fishing trawlers to fighting them. Can struggling fisheries now turn around?

And ecologist Suzanne Simard says they need our help to survive

Fossil fuel interests are trying to blame climate change on individuals while also sowing division, says Michael Mann, one of their prime targets

 The Hōkūleʻa vessel is set to finish its first circumnavigation later this week in Honolulu

Paleontologist-turned-politician Richard Leakey leads the charge in Kenya's war on poaching

Johns Hopkins clinical pharmacologist Roland Griffiths talks about a major new study hinting at psychedelic drugs as therapeutic powerhouses 

Paleontologist-turned-politician Richard Leakey talks with Scientific American about his efforts to save Kenya’s wildlife

U.S. agencies hope the spectacle will raise public awareness of the growing elephant slaughter

A new report reveals an uptick in the destruction of Brazil’s rainforests