Environment

8 waste products that come back to haunt us.

We hastily dispose of dead whales, ignoring the ecological significance of their carcasses.

Dave Ford chartered a cruise for Fortune 500 company leaders and activists to dive into an environmental crisis.

For sea life, the ocean is becoming an intolerable racket.

Our appetite is destroying a natural bulwark against climate change.

The collapse of our pollinators may no longer be headlines, but we’re still killing their buzz.

The lush biodiversity of the Amazon may be due in part to the dynamics of branching rivers, which serve as invisible fences that continuously barricade and merge bird populations.

Mo’orea, a Pacific Island, spotlights the rift in conservation between foreign scientists and Indigenous people.

As marine scientists strive to understand the mysteries of the deep, the miners are moving in.

Scientists are finding 2,000 new marine species a year. Why it matters to name and categorize them.

This entrepreneur plans to revive the famous urban ecosystem with a billion oysters.