Unusual heat this year may have melted ice and thawed bonds that hold glaciers in place – leading to catastrophe

Unusual heat this year may have melted ice and thawed bonds that hold glaciers in place – leading to catastrophe

VJOSA-NARTA, Albania — In late April, heavy machinery began moving into the Pishë Poro-Narta protected landscape on Albania’s Adriatic coast without permits or public notice. Bulldozers and excavators...

The Chilcotin River in present-day British Columbia has long divided — and joined — the Secwépemc and Tsilhqot’in nations, each with an ancient claim to the land and the cherished salmon run there.

Trillions of insects embark, largely unnoticed, on epic journeys every year across mountain ranges, deserts and seas, and it is only now, as their numbers suffer huge declines, that scientists are tra...

Add it to the war, and maybe we have a teachable moment

Giant tortoises have been reintroduced to Floreana Island in the Galapágos, 180 years after going extinct there.

I said “Hello, film Dad” to Brendan Gleeson in a wobbly voice, and gave him a huge hug

After almost 18 years, I left iNaturalist, the product and organization I helped create. I left because I don’t believe the current Leadership team is pointing the product in the right direction, and ...

felled 1879 My aspens dear, whose airy cages quelled, Quelled or quenched in leaves the leaping sun, All felled, felled, are all felled; Of a fresh and following folded rank Not spared, not one That d...

Just 1 month after being appointed to the position, the new administrator of Vlora Airport has submitted his irrevocable resignation

Harriet Fitch Little and Tom Robbins select their best mid-year reads

A new study from the University of Pennsylvania has identified effective ways to motivate people to take climate action. Top among them: Writing a letter to a child describing one’s aspirations...

Kathleen Jamie reflects on a recent poetry performance

MPs had previously backed Conservative amendment to ask developers to provide hollow bricks for endangered birds

Born of a spontaneous decision to up sticks for the Grecian wilderness, Julian Hoffman’s poetic memoir is an inspiring call to throw caution to the wind

An ecologist probes the future of forests

As pollution levels hit record highs and fresh water becomes ‘the new oil’, is it time to radically reimagine our relationship to the natural world?