environment
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?
Main opposition party against mining wins Greenland election
Report: Invasive species target islands, coastal areas while upending ecosystems
Globe-trotting pollutants pose a larger threat to public health than previously thought
What lessons can Canada offer the US on the suppression of scientific research?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Voices from the Coal Mines in Julia Wolfe’s “Anthracite Fields”
Miner key: Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer-Prize winning oratorio about coal country.
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.