Environment

Violent gangsterism and illegal operations dominate sand mining in the global south.

How warming oceans could deplete nutrition for millions in the tropics.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch isn’t all garbage. It’s also an ecosystem.

Inside one national park’s quest to make peace between humans and animals.

The buzz on preventing elephants from plundering communities.

The author on writing her new book “Ignition,” her dive into the new science of fighting wildfires.

The new estimate for how much heat we can tolerate makes rising global temperatures even more alarming.

The world’s largest and smelliest flower teeters on extinction.

Hands-on fieldwork, cutting-edge science, and baboons who steal your lunch.

That means humans could go hungry, too.

Too much sodium is bad, but so is too little—no wonder the body has two sensing mechanisms.

Here’s how psychology can help fix that. (It’s easier than you'd guess.)