A South African game reserve has a new strategy for curbing illegal hunting: forensic entomology.
On Earth Day 2011, a look back at 6 Atlantic essays by the father of American environmentalism
There was more to that day than Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
An environmental lawyer says the sale could pose a major conflict of interest.
“The Great Terrain Robbery" is what Alaskan developers call President Carter’s efforts to preserve America’s largest wilderness territory. Conservationists, on the other hand, view Alaska’s virgin frontier as a national resource, and want Congress to help protect it.
This time-lapse video of the night sky over Joshua Tree uses no special effects.
A collection of images of mountain gorillas in their home habitat in central Africa.
The ranks of civil servants face miserable brain drain if Congress persists with pay freezes, benefit cuts, and badmouthing dedicated employees.