Construction projects are blocking the movement of marine life, creating underwater traffic jams.
Ecologists are starting to better understand just how bad barbed wire is for wildlife.
PAUL BROOKS, who is editor in chief of Houghton Mifflin Company, last appeared in these pages with an account of a trip to Mount McKinley Park and the Alaskan tundra. He is presently bringing together the experiences that he and his wife hare enjoyed in our “roadless areas” for a book to be published next year.
Including some of The Atlantic’s best work on the climate crisis, the fight over abortion, and more
With NIH furloughs, children with cancer are being turned away from clinical trials.
The fantasy of abolishing Congress turns into a nightmare in this archival clip from Coronet Instructional Films.
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.