The Drug Trade Isn’t Just Killing People, but the Planet Itself

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Oct 25, 2019 A gripping documentary details the surprising role drug cartels and illegal traffickers are playing in the extinction of a rare whale. Dig deeper ( 25 Min. Read )

U.N. Reports See Lonelier Planet With Fewer Plants, Animals

SETH BORENSTEIN / The Associated Press Mar 23, 2018 Scientists meeting in Colombia report on how animals and plants are doing in four regions—the Americas, Europe and Central Asia, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. Their conclusion: Not well. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

New Map Reveals How Roads Devastate Nature

By Tim Radford / Climate News Network Jan 18, 2017 Scientists call for urgent protection of ecologically valuable roadless areas. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Corporations Face Billions of Dollars in Rising Water Costs

By Kieran Cooke / Climate News Network Nov 28, 2016 Droughts and floods linked to climate change are severely affecting companies' financial performance globally. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Community-Based ‘Bright Spots’ Offer Hope Against Climate Change

By Richard Sadler / Climate News Network Oct 19, 2016 Scientists show how we can improve poor people’s lives by reversing practices that destroy the environment and fuel climate change. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Human Population Growth Continues to Threaten Biodiversity

By Tim Radford / Climate News Network Aug 26, 2016 Scientists find that impacts of population growth on the planet’s biodiversity aren’t generally as bad as has been feared -- but are intensifying rapidly in species-rich areas.Scientists find that impacts of population growth on the planet’s biodiversity aren’t generally as bad as has been feared—but are intensifying rapidly in species-rich areas. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Disturbing Forests Damages Natural Diversity

By Tim Radford / Climate News Network Jul 11, 2016 Ensuring tropical forests are protected from human intrusion is vital if they are to preserve the many creatures that inhabit them, researchers say. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Scientists Calculate Our Debt to Earth

By Tim Radford / Climate News Network Feb 24, 2016 Researchers in the U.S. have found a way to put a monetary value on the multitude of vital services and assets we rely on nature to provide us cost-free. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Global Warming Threatens Cod Despite Fishing Quotas

By Tim Radford / Climate News Network Nov 4, 2015 Changes in the Gulf Stream current are raising sea temperatures off the New England coast and seriously depleting the cod so valuable to the fishing industry. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

European Warming Sends Wild Boar Numbers Soaring

By Paul Brown, Climate News Network Aug 20, 2015 Increasingly mild winters and an abundance of acorns and nuts have caused a population explosion among wild boar in Europe. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

To Drill or Not to Drill — That Is the Question

By Subhankar Banerjee, TomDispatch Mar 4, 2015 Major oil company Royal Dutch Shell wants to drill in the Chukchi Sea this summer. In the long term, that could spell doom for one of the last great relatively untouched oceanic environments on the planet. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

‘Amazon of U.K.’ Being Destroyed for Grouse Shooting

By Paul Brown, Climate News Network Oct 6, 2014 Managing moorlands so that more birds can be reared for lucrative shooting parties is adding to climate change by destroying layers of peat and releasing large quantities of stored carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )