This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan officially announced earlier this month that the Biden administration will reinterpret the Trump administration’s definition of what constitutes “waters of the United States” – waterways…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Within the field of ocean conservation, as in many areas of social and environmental change work, we are witnessing a call to authentically advance equity issues, particularly within the context of the global pandemic and the social and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Amid a push from the Biden administration for U.S. agriculture to help slow climate change, a new study shows farmers in the Corn Belt are dropping the ball on adopting…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Biodiversity provides humanity and our economies with the resources needed to thrive. However, the planet is experiencing a great loss of biodiversity due to overfishing, deforestation and pollution. Humans and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The La Sal Mountains rise like ungainly totems above the red rock desert outside Moab, Utah. From afar the forested slopes and barren, rock-strewn peaks have none of the splendor…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. With the fight against climate change gaining new urgency across the world, more companies and governments have been taking a hard look at the environmental impact of palm oil, one…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Three-quarters of new and emerging infectious diseases in humans originate in wildlife. COVID-19, SARS and Ebola all started this way. The COVID-19 global pandemic has drawn new attention to how…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Conservationists have warned that the death of the last male northern white rhinoceros in Kenya is a sign that unsustainable human activity is driving a new era of mass extinctions around the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In late 2017, photographer Matthijs Kuijpers spent two days driving into the mountains in Suriname–armed with guns, because of the presence of illegal gold mining in the area–in search of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A new GPS-enabled study helps answer not only the questions of where and when African elephants in Gabon move, but also why. The study provides the first landscape-scale documentation of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Every year, relief organizations deliver millions of metric tons of food across the globe. Most humanitarian emergencies arise in areas torn by armed conflict or natural disasters. They are complex…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The seemingly impossible task of decoupling deforestation from the palm oil industry could be achieved by raising the price of palm-based consumer goods by just 1.8 per cent, a new…