Many people are learning about data centers and advocating for their communities’ interests. Some are experienced community ...

Albania’s Vjosa Narta river faces threats from development planned by Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and enabled by ...

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John Yunker John Yunker is author of the novels The Tourist Trail and Where Oceans Hide Their Dead and coauthor (with Midge Raymond) of Devils Island. He is cofounder of Ashland Creek Press and editor ...

Global problems are rarely solved by one person or invention — no matter how much they go viral. The Ocean Cleanup didn’t work, for the reasons experts said it wouldn’t. What can we learn from this?

Two incidents that generated worldwide headlines in recent months have called attention to the often-overlooked plight of India’s captive elephants. In the first, an elderly female elephant died three ...

No, they’re not creatures of myth or cartoons. The “unicorns of the sea” are real — and they’re incredible.

I’m lucky to live immediately adjacent to Point Reyes National Seashore in California and make frequent visits to indulge my photography hobby. In the summer I can work a full day and still search for ...

Environmentalists, myself included, pay close attention to gloomy topics like species extinctions and Earth’s dwindling life-support systems. It’s not for the love of dark matters that we keep tabs on ...

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 ...