The Shocking Truth About Sloths

As their forests disappear, sloths are climbing on dangerous power lines. Veterinarians and rescue centers are developing new techniques to help.

Madeline Bodin

Earth Island Advances Legal Action Against Major Companies Responsible for Plastic Waste

Suit alleges that food, beverage, and consumer goods corporations like Coca-Cola and Pepsi mislead consumers on recycling.

Zoe Loftus-Farren

Saltwater Threat to Louisiana Drinking Water to Grow Across US, Experts Warn

Louisiana residents face crisis as seawater penetrates Mississippi but scientists say other coastal cities likely to be affected over time

Delaney Nolan The Guardian

The Sea Eagles That Returned to Mull

Almost 50 years ago, conservationists reintroduced white-tailed eagles to Scotland. It’s gone well. Some say too well.

Emma Marris

Orca Conservation Hits a Health Mystery

Skin lesions on killer whales provide clues to population, ecosystem changes.

Forest Ray

A Regenerative Farm in Lebanon Yields Much

The Turba farm is helping a country grappling with pollution and economic strife.

Áine Donnellan

The Debt Ceiling Bill Came with Some Bad News for the Environment

Unpacking changes to NEPA embedded in the Fiscal Responsibility Act.

Paul Krantz

A Last Chance for Animals and Plants Extinct in the Wild

Study maps 72 species that are now confined to zoos and botanical gardens, on the brink of complete extinction.

Duda Menegassi

Why My Small Park Matters, and So Does Yours

If you’re skeptical about their value, just ask a kid.

Eric Freedman

Forensics for Wildlife

In Eswatini, Africa, a molecular biologist will help prosecute poachers.

Nokukhanya Musi-Aimienoho

The Proposed Ambler Road Will Harm Alaska’s Kobuk River Ecosystem and its People

The road would cut across one of the wildest places in Alaska.

George Wuerthner

Ecuadorians Vote to Halt Oil Drilling in Biodiverse Amazonian National Park

Referendum result protecting Yasuní reserve will benefit huge range of species as well as Indigenous peoples.

Dan Collyns The Guardian

Reef Relief

Can probiotics save corals from a devastating tissue loss disease?

Scarlett Buckley

Land and Blood

How property quietly passes hands in Ecuador.

Gabriela Verdezoto Landívar

Swimmable Cities Are a Climate Solution

Amid scorching heat, cities around the world are rethinking access to waterways.

Sarah Amandolare

Ecuador’s Napo River is Dying. Again.

New mining operations are killing all life in the Amazon tributary and impacting local communities

Gabriela Verdezoto Landívar