Our Covid-19 Coverage

Overcrowding continues to be a problem at California prison worst hit by the coronavirus crisis.

For centuries, the Quilombola people, descendants of escaped African slaves, have survived against insurmountable odds in the Amazon rainforest. Now industrial pollution and a pandemic are threatening their existence.

With visitor numbers down, Kenyan wildlife advocates need to consider alternative conservation funding streams.

Scientists have been monitoring seals and whales on Marion Island for nearly 40 years. Until last week, they thought Covid-19 was going to break their dataset.

West County DIGS is helping families offer their kids off-screen learning and enrichment by providing plant starts and gardening tips.

Concession to extract timber from 148,000 hectares in upper Baram was granted despite repeated objections from local communities.

Prisons and jails across the country are failing to adequately protect prisoners and staff from the pandemic.

Physician and climate expert Aaron Bernstein talks about the Covid-19 pandemic and bridging the gap between medicine and the environment.

Across the US, gardeners are producing food, building community, and finding some calm during this time of uncertainty.

Mollusk researchers are pushing forward with their work as much as possible despite limitations.

For many animal rescuers and rehabilitators, the pandemic has brought a new set of challenges.

With the disappearance of so much intimate encounter, the prospect of plunging our hands in the soil has gained extraordinary appeal.

Closed to tourists, pandemic is taking major toll on Virunga’s finances, local economy, as park reels from recent violence.

Tourism is a powerful conservation tool, but when people get too close, it can also facilitate spread of dangerous pathogens.

Gough Island in South Atlantic is home to mutant rodents that feast on some 2 million young seabirds every year.

Online comment sessions render many voiceless against plan prioritizing fossil fuel production on federal and Native lands in New Mexico, opponents say.

Agency’s current enforcement discretion policy undermines protection of environment and public health when we need it most, advocates say.

Bail out people, not polluters.

I hope that when all this is over we will put our devices away when we are blessed again with social closeness.

Environmental advocates call for nationwide moratorium on pipeline construction and approvals, citing threats to environment, vulnerable communities, and workers.

The plastics industry is exploiting people’s fears of contracting Covid-19 to push its agenda.

Around the country, Covid-19 has shut down wildlife programs and nature walks. But on Cape Cod, marine mammals and shorebirds live on, and naturalists continue to observe.

Shutdowns could impede treatment and monitoring efforts, experts say, fueling further concern about food security in the region.

In this year, we have learned beyond a doubt, what we never quite believed before — that we human beings are not in charge here.

The tribe’s resourceful efforts to protect its people might help the Navajo Nation avert the worst projected outcome of this pandemic.

The Covid-19 crisis underscores the flaws in our broken multinational food system. It also offers a chance at devising solutions.

With in-person protests suspended amid shutdown, companies continue to destroy rainforest.

We should focus instead on getting wild and exotic animals out of what are essentially the Eastern equivalent farmers markets.

The spread of Covid-19 exposes, exacerbates, and weaponizes existing socioeconomic inequities.

Trade policies written in the shadows while the public is distracted always have terrible consequences for working people and the planet.

Coupled with the agency’s deregulatory agenda, lack of monitoring and enforcement raises the risks faced by vulnerable communities living next to polluting industries.

Transforming our relationship with nature can help us build the future we want as we recover from the coronavirus pandemic.

The stimulus doesn't go far enough to protect family-scale farmers, food workers, and local food businesses that have been hit hard by this crisis.

Cash promise for the controversial oil pipeline comes just days after province cut $100 million from public education citing a funds crunch due covid lockdowns.

Our violent disregard for biodiversity and our own part in the web of life has generated a perfect storm of global proportions.

Economic relief is essential, but it shouldn't entrench fossil fuel dependence across the global economy.

As coronoavirus pandemic shrinks demand for oil, experts say it's time to move towards alternatives.

A fundamentalist Christian organization has purchased a helicopter with plans to visit and convert isolated groups in remote Brazilian rainforest.

Due to continuing deforestation, bushmeat hunting, and caring for domestic animals, this will certainly not be the last deadly virus from wild animals to infect humans.