This week is National Environmental Education Week. It culminates in Earth Day celebrations on April 22 -- another American idea...

On the heels of last year's historic climate and biodiversity conservation agreements--multinational agreements to slow the climate's...

It's been said that forests are the lungs of the planet. Saving the Earth's tropical and temperate forests is an essential element in...

The world's glaciers are frozen reservoirs of water that sustain nearly 2 billion people worldwide. As glaciers melt away, so do the...

A bit of good news in the New Year. The most recent gathering of the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Montreal produced a...

I've written several blog posts earlier this year about the continuing loss of Earth's biodiversity. Not a happy subject. Yet, as with...

As the climate of the Rocky Mountains warms, bumblebee inhabitants of lower elevations are shifting their ranges into the alpine...

Protected areas are biodiversity reservoirs around the globe. But as the warming of the planet's climate accelerates, species using...

Drawing on more than 1,000 scientific studies assessing the value of nature, a landmark study published by the Intergovernmental...

A peer-reviewed study published in the journal Nature in April discussed how interactions between people and animals are at the heart of...

Over the seven years we've lived outside of Bozeman, Montana, the change we've noticed is dramatic. We just don't see the birds we used...

Following on my March 7th post about the newly enacted law in Panama, the highest court in India has likewise ruled that "Mother Nature "...

Panama’s president, Laurentino Cortizo, signed into law far-reaching protections for the natural world last week. The legislation, which...

By now you may have heard that over the past 2 days, the world has lost 2 men each of whom were luminaries in their fields: Archbishop...