“IT WAS A JARRING SOUND, like an alarm that you cannot miss,” said Rajagopala Reddy, a 71-year-old farmer from Velkur village in the coastal state of Andhra Pradesh in southern India. The sound was ...

“IT WAS A JARRING SOUND, like an alarm that you cannot miss,” says Rajagopala Reddy, a 71-year-old farmer from Velkur village in the coastal state of Andhra Pradesh in southern India. The sound was ...

I’M HEADING INTO THE SACRED Valley, to heart of potato country in the Peruvian highlands, in a truck with agronomist Jessica Villacorta. About an hour northeast of Cusco, at 3,000 meters above sea ...

As the Rim Fire burnt its way into the record books this summer, hundreds of firefighters, as well as fire engines, airplanes, helicopters, and bulldozers, were used to try and bring the blaze under ...

In Bridgeton, on the northern edge of St. Louis County, Missouri, a fire burns underground in a vast landfill, creeping closer and closer to a pile of radioactive waste from the World War II era that ...

Show the slightest bit of concern for the environment and you get labeled a tree hugger. That’s what poor Newt Gingrich has been dealing with recently, as the other presidential candidates attack his ...

Apurímac is a mountainous region in southern Peru, part of the Andean highlands. It is characterized by rugged geography, high-altitude valleys, and a cold, dry climate. Most of its population is ...

Remember how Big Soda spent $2.3 million during the 2014 elections in a desperate attempt to kill the City of Berkeley’s proposal to levy a modest tax on sugary drinks? The industry clearly understood ...

There was a time in my life when fly-fishing was my life. I was a true fish bum. My entire existence revolved around the “sport.” I fished more than 150 days a year and had an unhealthy obsession with ...

The environmental community is engaged in a deeply important conversation about equity. It holds great promise for a more inclusive, diverse, and powerful movement — one that is progressing toward an ...

High above the Bolstad Fjord, perched on a scaffold set into the cliff-top hut, Helge Furnes watched with the intensity of an osprey for a monstrous salmon to enter his trap of netting laid out on the ...

In a landmark victory for Indigenous Sámi reindeer herders, the Norwegian Supreme Court ruled in October that the government should never have granted licenses for two wind farms recently constructed ...