As with most things in Florida, the problems facing the Santa Fe River and the state’s springs defy easy narratives.
Brendan Bures
Feature Articles
Power to the People
Scotland’s clean energy future is community owned. Can the United States follow suit?
Nathaniel Dolton-Thornton
The Music in their Bones
Music is the trembling urgency and exuberance of life ongoing. Truly, if we can’t save the songs, can we save ourselves?
Kathleen Dean Moore
Scrappy Endeavor
The Global South is a dumping ground for the world’s electronic waste. In Kenya, recyclers are looking to e-waste for resources — and a safer circular economy.
Kang-Chun Cheng
Reimagining Conservation
Translocation of at-risk species raises many questions about what belonging will come to mean in a changing world.
Dominick Leskiw
The Other Covid Nurses
Caring for sick and injured wildlife has always been challenging, but during the pandemic, for many rehabilitators, it has become a grueling, 24/7 labor of love.
Liz DevittImages by Lauren Owens Lambert
To Our Readers
Close the Circuit
If we are to transition to an economy that’s truly green, we cannot afford to ignore the ever-vexing question of what to do with not just our e-waste, but all our crap.
Maureen Nandini Mitra
The Long Game
Keep Swinging
We are in a moment of convergence where our past is present, and our future is still in our grasp.
Carolyn Finney
Earth Island Reports
Spike in Birdwatching is a Conservation Boon
The challenge now is to sustain this interest and turn it into political action.
Fiona Cundy, Randy Hester, and Marcia McNally
A Just Transition
Solar can eliminate energy poverty and restore the self-determination of Native American Tribes.
Cheri A. Smith
1000 Words
Six-Inch Galaxies Frozen in Ice
Journalist and photographer Erik Hoffner has spent the past two decades photographing the “unexpected beauty” left behind in the holes drilled by ice fishermen.
Austin Price
Conversation
Bringing Climate Solutions to Scale
Ken Alex believes in promoting all ideas to tackle climate chaos that have potential, without being blind to the reality.
Maureen Nandini Mitra
In Review
Conservation Blind Spots
Beloved Beasts raises questions that get to the heart of the conservation movement’s shortcomings.
Austin Price
Chemical Carnage
From Vietnam to Oregon, a united front of crusaders confronts the destructive legacy of Agent Orange.
Ed Rampell
Voices
Community is Power
In over 19 years of working in Altai, I’ve learned that communities are where advocacy begins.