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Martin Lukas Ostachowski / Pixabay / Pexels The Nature You See in Documentaries Is Beautiful and False
Nature documentaries mislead viewers into thinking that there are lots of untouched landscapes left. There aren’t.
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H. Abernathy / ClassicStock / Getty Inevitable Planetary Doom Has Been Exaggerated
Hope for the future is a reasonable and necessary prerequisite for action.
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Ringo Chiu / AFP / Getty The United States Has Become a Disaster Area
Hurricanes in the Gulf, fires in the West, the coronavirus everywhere—the country is a mess.
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Will Matsuda The West Has Never Felt So Small
With fires raging up and down the West Coast, and the pandemic restricting travel, the instinct to bolt has nowhere to go.
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Eric Nyquist When Conservationists Kill Lots (and Lots) of Animals
Invasive species are sometimes trapped, poisoned, and shot in large numbers to save native species from extinction. Some scientists say the bloodshed isn’t worth it.
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Tim Graham / Getty Dingoes Have Changed the Actual Shape of the Australian Desert
The canine’s presence seems to set off an ecological ripple effect.
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Jennifer A Smith / Getty How Extinction Shaped the Australian Outback
The landscape might look very different if foxes and cats hadn’t been introduced.
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Charles Peterson / Flickr The Great Eucalyptus Debate
The Bay Area is deadlocked in a battle over whether its non-native blue gum trees should be felled or protected.
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Ecology Without Wilderness: Tending the Global Garden We Call 'Nature'
Too often, ecologists focus on attaining an ideal that's no longer possible. An excerpt from the new book, Rambunctious Garden.
