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How sustainable and ethical is your seafood? New report ranks U.S. supermarkets

With assault rifles and legal hijinks, Harper’s government takes on the Canadian environment

Recovery of predators causes unexpected conservation challenges

Arctic Ocean acidifies, threatening food web and major fisheries

‘Land sparing’ vs. ‘land sharing’: scientists weigh in on how to improve biodiversity on farms

US ambassador reiterates commitment to controversial Okinawa air base, a setback for endangered dugong

U.S. to remove extinct cougar from Endangered Species Act

Experts question White House claim that new free trade agreements have strong environmental protections

New fund helps groups buy land quickly to protect threatened wildlife

Vaquita porpoises down to ‘way less than 100,’ Mexican agents shoot fisherman while enforcing new protected area

Photos from the front: the California oil spill in pictures

High pressure: is U.S. policy deterring illegal wood imports?

Nickel Mine, Lead Bullets: Maya Q’eqchi’ seek justice in Guatemala and Canada

Fisheries in developing countries stall on the path to sustainability

World on course to lose 1 in 6 species to climate change – South America, Australia, New Zealand face even more extinctions

Fracas over Costa Rican shark-fin exports leads American Airlines to stop shipping fins

Woman defeats mine, saves wilderness, wins $175,000

Overfishing leads to crashes in sardines and other forage fish

Turning prairies into gas: study finds U.S. biofuel production has big impacts on grasslands

Mexico’s club mosses at risk of extinction

Last ditch: Mexico finally gets serious about saving the vaquita

U.S. Central Plains and Southwest will likely face apocalyptic drought

Feds confirm first wolf in the Grand Canyon area shot dead

Super-rare carnivore photographed in Yosemite after missing for nearly a century

Monarch butterfly population rises a little, but still perilously low

Judge protects Midwest wolves after 1,599 killed in three years

Feds: gray wolf may have returned to the Grand Canyon after 70 years

Pet trade likely responsible for killer salamander fungus

Dissolving pulp: a growing threat to global forests

Tigers vs. diamonds: India’s protected areas rampantly downgraded to make room for people, industry

How protected are they? Report finds world’s Protected Areas may relax, shrink, even completely disappear

What makes the jaguar the ultimate survivor? New books highlights mega-predator’s remarkable past and precarious future

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