By focusing on reusable products, some organizations are helping to break our addiction to single-use plastic.

America’s waters are contaminated by poop and bacteria. Use our maps to find the worst waste locations near you.

As the climate crisis escalates, a huge amount of attention and money is being focused on climate solutions. These can be divided into two categories: solutions that pursue “mitigation,” which lowers ...

Laurel Neme is the author of Animal Investigators: How the World’s First Forensics Lab is Solving Crimes and Saving Endangered Species. Her work has appeared on National Geographic, Mongabay and other ...

The recently enacted High Seas Treaty offers an opportunity to protect the ocean like never before.

A major restoration effort by a coalition of Tribes and government agencies could help imperiled fish and other animals on the Trinity River.

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Drones, Algae and Fish Ears: What We’re Learning Before the World’s Largest Dam-removal Project — and What We Could Miss Scientists studying conditions on the Klamath River hope to help recovery ...

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Klamath Countdown: Researchers Hustle Before Largest Dam-Removal Project Begins To anticipate the impacts of a historic river restoration, we need to understand how salmon, bats, insects, algae and ...

John R. Platt is the editor of The Revelator and an award-winning environmental journalist whose work has appeared in dozens of publications around the world. His “Extinction Countdown” column has run ...