Soil from the surface can smother reefs. A new study creates a map of corals most susceptible to runoff from land

The multiplayer game tests conservation strategies for farmers interacting with elephants in Gabon, but its lessons reveal a need for human equity

Those who control vast sums of money could easily fund real changes and simply choose not to

The National Geographic Explorer and NASA scientist spoke with Massive on how imaging environmental change can change minds

"All We Can Save" doesn't shy away from doom or hope, encompassing the enormity of climate change

Though created by accident, her story fit neatly with burgeoning 20th century feminism

But their success in the past likely won't repeat itself now that ice is melting again

She wasn't allowed to work at remote field sites, so she became the expert in her local rocks and fossils

Simulating alkaline environments from 3 billion years ago showed formation of precursor cells is possible

U.S. exports of soybeans to China have dropped dramatically. Brazil is stepping up to meet Chinese demand — and burning vast areas of the Amazon along the way.

Volcanoes blanketed by tropical rainforests are a natural laboratory to study climate change

Radical, wholesale change is needed right this second and cannot be delayed

Dark money foreign investments may bankroll deforestation and overfishing

Rachel Love Nuwer explains how and why illegal trade threatens to wipe some of our planet's most charismatic animals off the map forever

There are some things it's impossible to discern without ground truthing

The mountain apple's entry into Indonesia a century ago still threatens biodiversity there

Prioritizing data over action can be counterproductive – but so is a muddled message

Bats are the canaries in the Amazonian goldmine

In six days, players collected as much data as naturalists had in 400 years

She discovered the Earth's 'backbone' even though men wouldn't let her on a ship for 17 years