This excerpt from the new book The Earth Said Remember Me looks at the shifting baselines around the United States’ national ...

Climate change, drought, and fires — all caused or worsened by human activity — are rewriting the future of ancient Sonoran saguaros.

The driver of zoonotic outbreaks isn’t bad luck. It’s habitat destruction, wildlife trade, and decades of ignoring science.

Diving on coastal reefs can bring us closer to nature and inspire conservation, but there are steps every ecotourist can take ...

Activists raise serious concerns about the welfare of the country’s captive elephants and the laundering of wild-caught ...

Most species on the brink of extinction are on the Endangered Species list because there is almost no place left for them to ...

Study: Commercial Lion Farming in South Africa Could Be Harming, Not Helping, Wild Lions As we’ve seen with tigers and other threatened species, captive lion breeding may stimulate consumer demand and ...

The story of commercial whaling and the iconoclasts who opposed it offers hope for whales facing today’s new threats — and the future of our planet.

These howling good books examine how we’ve persecuted wolves, how we’ve helped to restore them, and how they embody humanity’s relationship with nature.

Nearly half of all stopover sites used by migrating birds in North America fall within urban areas.