The giant water lily, Victoria amazonica, can hold the weight of a child and is the national flower of Guyana. The flower blooms white, attracts gold beetles that night for a big party inside, and turns intense pink the next day. Photo by Erica Gies.

The New York Times · Climate Change Conservation Indigenous

Guyana Offers a Model to Save Rain Forest

The New York Times · Pollution Water

A Clash Over Mining and Water

The New York Times · Energy Water

Ethanol Boom Creates Environmental Impact

The New York Times · Indigenous Water

Rich in Coal, a Tribe Struggles to Overcome Poverty

The New York Times · Biodiversity Climate Change

Holding On to What Was in the Andamans

The New York Times · Pollution Water

Advocate Helps Track Polluters on Supply Chain

The New York Times · Environmental Justice Water

Nestlé’s Thirst for Water Splits Small U.S. Town

The New York Times · Environmental Justice Water

Bottled Water Industry Triggers Strong Reactions

Economist ·

Wiring the World Below

Economist · Science

Into the Wildwood: A GM species may soon be liberated deliberately

The New York Times · Conservation Energy Energy Efficiency

Doing More While Using Less Power

The New York Times · Energy Pollution

Waste-to-Energy Plants a Waste of Energy

Floating store on Tonle Sap, Southeast Asia's largest freshwater lake, home to thousands of dispossessed people. The lake faces numerous threats, including a dam-building boom in China and Laos. Photo by Erica Gies.

TakePart · Energy Environmental Justice Food Policy Water

A Giant Lake that Sustains Millions of People Is in Danger

Dams, overfishing, and pollution threaten Cambodia’s Tonle Sap, the largest lake in Southeast Asia and one of the world’s most productive fisheries.

The New York Times · Conservation Energy

Potential Grows for Biomass Energy

TakePart · Adaptation Nature-Based Solutions Slow Water Water

Coca-Cola Leaves It to Beavers to Fight the Drought

The soft-drink giant is deploying the dam-building animals to replenish groundwater supplies.

The New York Times · Energy Renewable Energy

The Challenge of Storing Energy on a Large Scale

TakePart · Environmental Justice Indigenous Water

The Navajo Are Fighting to Get Their Water Back

A third of tribe members lack clean water while cities thrive on rivers running through reservations. New deals are enabling them to take some of what’s theirs.

In Luang Prabang, Laos, two elephants connect during an elephant caravan that drew locals' attention to the illegal logging that threatens the country’s 900 remaining pachyderms. Photo by Erica Gies.

TakePart · Biodiversity Conservation Environmental Justice Policy

Laos’ Elephants Take to the Road to Save Their Forest Home

An elephant caravan draws attention to the illegal logging that threatens the country’s 900 remaining pachyderms.

TakePart · Biodiversity Environmental Justice Food Policy Water

Investors Are Grabbing a Japan-Size Chunk of the Developing World for Food and Water

Activists tracking these deals say rich countries are buying up land—93 million acres—and displacing local people and wildlife.

TakePart · Nature-Based Solutions Slow Water Water

Hacking the Drought

With climate models predicting precipitation extremes in some of the world’s most ecologically and politically sensitive areas, scientists and engineers are coming up with creative solutions.