environment

Australian flooding

Climate migration has begun, and it's only getting worse, expert says

A new migration crisis looms on the horizon. Where will people go when a changing climate renders their homelands uninhabitable? And what can governments do about it?

Climate migration has begun, and it's only getting worse, expert says
A small crowd of people are shown examining green ballots next to rows of boxes.

Main opposition party against mining wins Greenland election

Main opposition party against mining wins Greenland election
Invasive species

Report: Invasive species target islands, coastal areas while upending ecosystems

Report: Invasive species target islands, coastal areas while upending ecosystems
Beijing power plant

Globe-trotting pollutants pose a larger threat to public health than previously thought

Globe-trotting pollutants pose a larger threat to public health than previously thought
Death of Evidence rally

What lessons can Canada offer the US on the suppression of scientific research?

What lessons can Canada offer the US on the suppression of scientific research?
Rancher Bill Johnson and wildlife researcher Carol Bogezi on Johnson's ranch in Washington's Teanaway Valley. Bogezi has been working with Johnson and other ranchers in eastern Washington to try to find a way to help them live more amicably with wolves.

How Washington ranchers are learning to cope with wolves, with lessons from Uganda

Would you buy wolf-friendly meat? That's one idea Carol Bogezi has to help cattle ranchers in Washington state learn to live with wolves.

How Washington ranchers are learning to cope with wolves, with lessons from Uganda
A boy collects plastic from a garbage-covered river in Manila, 2010.

Plastic trash is a big problem. How much do you throw away? (QUIZ)

The consequences of plastic waste for humanity could be more severe than climate change.

Plastic trash is a big problem. How much do you throw away? (QUIZ)
Harvest moon over Coal Harbor

Canada is moving ahead with an aggressive carbon reduction plan

Canada is pushing forward on its initiative to rid the country of coal-fired power plants by 2030 and put a minimum national price on carbon by 2019.

Canada is moving ahead with an aggressive carbon reduction plan
Burned bus in Bengaluru, India

In India's Silicon Valley, the water wars have turned deadly

Water wars aren't new in India. But last week was the first time in recent history that civilians died, after protests turned ugly in the southern city of Bangalore.

In India's Silicon Valley, the water wars have turned deadly
Amazon Rainforest

Nearly 10 percent of the world's wilderness has disappeared since the 1990s

Areas of the world that are untouched by humans are disappearing — and that's a big problem, researchers say.

Nearly 10 percent of the world's wilderness has disappeared since the 1990s
Elephants

Survey shows 30 percent decline in African savannah elephant population

Researchers say the dramatic drop, revealed by a three-year aerial study, is largely due to poaching.

Survey shows 30 percent decline in African savannah elephant population
Firefighters battle the so-called Blue Cut Fire

The US Forest Service is being overwhelmed by all the fires it must fight

The agency's budget is now more than 50 percent dedicated to fighting forest fires, which takes away from what the agency could do for preservation and recreation.

The US Forest Service is being overwhelmed by all the fires it must fight
A mahout splashes water on his elephants

Bangladeshis plunge into a pond to save an elephant that wandered 621 miles from its herd

An Indian elephant wandered into Bangladesh where it ran amok before being tranquilized and nearly downing in a pond, before villages jumped into the water and held it up.

Bangladeshis plunge into a pond to save an elephant that wandered 621 miles from its herd

Voices from the Coal Mines in Julia Wolfe’s “Anthracite Fields”

Miner key: Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer-Prize winning oratorio about coal country. 

Voices from the Coal Mines in Julia Wolfe’s “Anthracite Fields”
Holyoke garden

How a permaculture garden led to a bountiful harvest — and true love

In their book, "Paradise Lot," gardeners Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates tell personal stories of creating a food forest of perennial plants and finding romance in the process.

How a permaculture garden led to a bountiful harvest — and true love