Conservation

The Goldman Environmental Prize has announced its 2023 awards. Three winners speak about their efforts to protect wilderness and fight polluters

A single whale can lock up as much carbon as 1,000 trees. By turning them into carbon credits, a new project hopes to save the climate and the whales

Amid a warming world, these conservationists have brought back a very old and very low-tech drought-busting practice, and they are getting results.

A way of life nurtured for hundreds of years in the U.S. Southeast guards coastlines from climate change

Researchers worry the Colombian environmental ministry will side with animal-rights activists rather than curb the spread of invasive hippos once kept by drug-cartel leader Pablo Escobar

Futuristic food science technology could finally bring plant-based salmon filets and tuna steaks to the table

A pair of studies raise concerns that the Amazon rain forest may be approaching a point of no return

The mountaineer Hilaree Nelson inspired people to care about the climate crisis

A visualization compares the forms of Earth’s largest flows of ice

A river’s “gut” revived, snake-saving social media, an intragalactic donut, and more success stories of the year

More than one quarter of the more than 150,000 species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species are threatened with extinction

Negotiators have gathered in Montreal for a United Nations summit aimed at hammering out a Paris-style agreement to halt and reverse global biodiversity loss by 2030