Deadly Disease Outbreak in Breeder Deer Threaten Texas’ 3.9 Million Whitetails

State wildlife dept’s approach to containing Chronic Wasting Disease inadequate, say conservationists.

James William Gibson

How Animals Die in America

We need federally mandated product labels that disclose how goods cause animal suffering or death.

Timothy DeLizza

We Need a Deep Green New Deal

Progressive green policy should consider the true social, labor, and ecological injustices of ceaseless economic growth.

Don Fitz

To Save the Rainforest, Think Like the Rainforest

The wisdom of how the forest regenerates its resources may save the forest, uplift smallholder farmers, and help fix the climate crisis.

Trevor Decker Cohen

Biden Expands Protections for Tongass National Forest

Environmentalists hail move, ask president to protect all mature forests in the US as a strategic carbon reserve.

Journal Staff

The Fires This Time

In California, conditions remain all too dry and all too hot.

Rebecca Gordon

Why Do We Talk About the Impact of Burgers But Not Bags?

Demand for leather is also a significant driver of the ecologically-destructive cattle industry.

Emma Hakansson

Goldfish Dumped in Lakes Growing to More Than 1ft, Threatening Ecosystems

Minnesota pet owners warned not to release fish into wild, where they wreak havoc on native species.

Edward Helmore The Guardian

Conservationist Fights for Persian Leopards in Iraqi Kurdistan

Hana Raza is determined to overcome conflict- and gender-related obstacles to establish a network of protected areas for the endangered big cats.

Veronika Perková 

One Solitary Whale, Heard for Decades, Never Seen

A motley crew of marine scientists and documentarians embark on a quest to locate this elusive troubadour of the deep.

Ed Rampell

Arizona’s Last Ocelot Faces A Life in Isolation

Lil’ Jefe, the only known remaining member of its species in the state, is cut off from his kind by Trump’s border wall.

Francisco Martinezcuello

Vancouver Mining Corp Shrugs Off Violence Against Guatemala’s Indigenous People

Pan American Silver paves the way for ecologically and socially destructive mines, and lets communities deal with the fallout.

Jen Moore Ellen Moore

‘Megadrought’ Along Border Strains US-Mexico Water Relations

There's simply not enough water to go around as the region buckles under stress of climate change.

Robert Gabriel Varady, Andrea K. Gerlak , and Stephen Paul Mumme

Slouching Towards Apocalypse

Climate change should really be reimagined as the equivalent of a slow-motion nuclear holocaust.

Tom Engelhardt

Imagining a World Free of Plastic Waste

In just a decade, the Plastic Free July initiative has grown from a grassroots movement to a global campaign.

Aleisha Orr

Miami Condo Collapse Prompts Questions Over Role of Climate Change

Experts suggest vulnerability of south Florida to rising seas could lead to destabilization of further buildings.

Oliver Milman The Guardian