Many choices we ask people make to help the climate don’t reveal immediate results. But we found that changing diets can have a climate benefit and quickly reduce some health risks.

This “living fossil” has survived in the South American Andes for millennia, but now faces an uncertain future due to climate change, fires, and voracious European animals.

Albania’s Vjosa Narta River faces threats from development planned by Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and enabled by the Albanian government. Music and art help fuel ongoing protests.

Oppressive tactics seek to suppress information and suppress dissent, while communities face poisoned air and water.

The Important Shark and Ray Areas project has identified thousands of critical habitats for some of the world’s most threatened fishes. Now saving these sites is up to us.

Many choices we ask people make to help the climate don’t reveal immediate results. But we found that changing diets can have a climate benefit and quickly reduce some health risks.

Most Thursday mornings, hardy volunteers at the Morrell Nature Sanctuary pull, cut, or hack down (depending on the species) the nonnative plants that threaten this incredible ecosystem.

Trend-driven consumerism is an environmental threat. We need to fight the system that drives us to buy.

Trend-driven consumerism is an environmental threat. We need to fight the system that drives us to buy.

Also this week: A reader asks about feeling like a cog in the machine and wonders if they can influence greener policies in their workplace.

The Important Shark and Ray Areas project has identified thousands of critical habitats for some of the world’s most threatened fishes. Now saving these sites is up to us.

The Important Shark and Ray Areas project has identified thousands of critical habitats for some of the world’s most threatened fishes. Now saving these sites is up to us.

The Important Shark and Ray Areas project has identified thousands of critical habitats for some of the world’s most threatened fishes. Now saving these sites is up to us.

Voracious demand for fish oil and guano puts the squeeze on shrinking populations of Humboldt penguins in Peru.

No, they’re not creatures of myth or cartoons. The “unicorns of the sea” are real — and they’re incredible.

Saving the maral (or Caspian red deer) from poachers and habitat loss will depend on keeping this volunteer effort going amid Iran’s ongoing challenges.

The agency supports critical efforts to reduce wildlife trafficking, deforestation, land violence, and other threats around the world.

Some species we label as invasive still serve a purpose by providing food or shelter to native species.

Some species we label as invasive still serve a purpose by providing food or shelter to native species.

An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.

Our September exhibit is rich with readers’ documented and artistic expressions of wild places and species around the world.

Oppressive tactics seek to suppress information and suppress dissent, while communities face poisoned air and water.

Oppressive tactics seek to suppress information and suppress dissent, while communities face poisoned air and water.

Our September exhibit is rich with readers’ documented and artistic expressions of wild places and species around the world.

Our September exhibit is rich with readers’ documented and artistic expressions of wild places and species around the world.

The latest climate book by Naomi Klein joins new titles about activism, animals, and restoration.

A calendar of environmental holidays and awareness days, along with several key eco-anniversaries (both good and bad).

The effects being seen decades after 9/11 could also affect people who survive disasters, extreme weather, wildfires, and other crises.

A forest is more than the trees it contains. It is also the vocabulary through which generations have learned to read its tides, seasons, species, and silences.

A forest is more than the trees it contains. It is also the vocabulary through which generations have learned to read its tides, seasons, species, and silences.

How changing lightbulbs helped change the world.

How changing lightbulbs helped change the world.

Like the early days of the shark fin trade, the mostly unregulated market for dried fish swim bladders has exploded in popularity, devastating species around the world.

Here’s a wrap-up of our funniest takes on planetary threats — articles and commentaries that use humor and satire to underscore tragedy or release overwhelming tension.

The country’s water crisis threatens drinking water and hydropower and worsens the risk of destructive fires.

No, they’re not creatures of myth or cartoons. The “unicorns of the sea” are real — and they’re incredible.

August’s deadly floods remind us: The developed countries that caused the climate crisis bear responsibility and a debt of justice.

No, they’re not creatures of myth or cartoons. The “unicorns of the sea” are real — and they’re incredible.

August’s deadly floods remind us: The developed countries that caused the climate crisis bear responsibility and a debt of justice.

The country’s water crisis threatens drinking water and hydropower and worsens the risk of destructive fires.

The country’s water crisis threatens drinking water and hydropower and worsens the risk of destructive fires.

No, they’re not creatures of myth or cartoons. The “unicorns of the sea” are real — and they’re incredible.

No, they're not creatures of myth or cartoons. The “unicorns of the sea” are real -- and they're incredible.

The latest climate book by Naomi Klein joins new titles about activism, animals, and restoration.