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Katharine Hayhoe on how to talk about climate change: ‘Share from the heart and then the head’

Mike Gaworecki 8 Aug 2017

Meet the 2017 ‘Green Oscars’ winners

Shreya Dasgupta 19 May 2017

The rise and fall of Regina Lopez, the Philippines’ maverick environment minister

Keith Schneider 9 May 2017

Meet the winners of the 2017 Goldman Environmental Prize

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Apr 2017

From CEO to Conservation Legend: An Interview with Kristine Tompkins

Matthew P. Reed 31 Mar 2017

Paul Simon on his new tour in support of E.O. Wilson’s Half-Earth initiative

Mike Gaworecki 21 Mar 2017

Rachel Carson: A sensitive soul who changed the way we see — and treat — the world

Leon Kolankiewicz 8 Mar 2017

Environmental lawyer killed in the Philippines

Isabel Esterman 21 Feb 2017

E.O. Wilson on Half-Earth, Donald Trump, and hope

Jeremy Hance 17 Jan 2017

Recognizing environmentalists under threat

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Oct 2016

Hectare by hectare, an indigenous man reforested a jungle in Indonesia’s burned-out heartland

Indra Nugraha 26 Oct 2016

Park ranger murdered while trying to protect rare gorillas

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Oct 2016

Environmental official murdered in Brazilian Amazon

Sue Branford 17 Oct 2016

Jane Goodall on zoos and tech as conservation tools

Erik Hoffner 4 Oct 2016

Anti-coal activist murdered in the Philippines

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Jul 2016

Deadliest year on record for environmental activists

Sandra Cuffe 20 Jun 2016
Yu Jiahua poses in front of a small portion of the wire loops collected by the anti-poaching patrol team during the past two decades. Photo by Wang Yan.

PHOTOS: On a Chinese mountain, an aging anti-poaching hero ponders the future

Wang Yan 16 Jun 2016

Biologist Carl Jones wins top prize for saving many rare species from extinction

Shreya Dasgupta 9 May 2016

Indian conservation geneticist wins Field Museum’s top conservation award

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Apr 2016
CRabin_Pinto_2012 Lúcio Flávio Pinto at home in 2012. Photo courtesy of Lúcio Flávio Pinto.

Amazon journalist endures, despite decades of threats and harassment

Cláudio Rabin 31 Mar 2016

Honduran environmental and indigenous rights activist, Berta Cáceres, is gunned down

Ruxandra Guidi 3 Mar 2016

Munduruku building new alliances to fight Tapajós Basin dams in Amazon

Guilherme Rosa from Repórter Brasil, Benjamin Blocksom translator 8 Feb 2016

Environmentalist gunned down by illegal miners in Peru

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Nov 2015

A Borneo village maps its land to protect against encroachers

Christopel Paino 3 Nov 2015

Bali’s mountain dwellers govern with ancient palm leaf treatises

Luh De Suriyani 29 Oct 2015
Sungai Utik elder Bandi in 2019. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The indigenous community whose forest is their supermarket

Andi Fachrizal 28 Oct 2015

An indigenous declaration in Kalimantan looks to make history

Sapariah Saturi 22 Oct 2015

Advances from oil palm interests leave Sulawesi village unmoved

Christopel Paino 20 Oct 2015

Punk rocker likes what he sees in Sumatra’s resin forest

Taufik Wijaya 19 Oct 2015

In the shadow of a metropolis, a community revives Java’s lost forests

Petrus Riski 16 Oct 2015

A village in Borneo turns away from palm oil

Andi Fachrizal 14 Oct 2015

Could canned fish soup stop government-community conflict in Sumatra?

Taufik Wijaya 9 Oct 2015

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