While wild animals can spread the virus, industrial farms are where it really thrives—and likely originated.

And they are fighting every effort to ban it.

Enshrining the rights of nonhuman entities in law would help us protect them before it’s too late.

Environmentalists are uniting against the independent presidential candidate.

It’s one message for MAGA-land and the opposite one for Jill Stein voters. And they just might get away with it.

Endangered smalltooth sawfish are one of many species that have been seen spinning around and beaching themselves off the Florida Keys.

Driscoll’s is an empire—one that depends on genetic patents and large infusions of water and pesticides.

Congestion pricing will provoke backlash unless New Yorkers get better public transit now—not later.

High-profile lawsuits have accused pesticides of causing cancer and Parkinson’s. But three states are now considering bills that would prevent these lawsuits.

Between its water use, energy use, e-waste, and need for critical minerals that could better be used on renewable energy, A.I. could trash our chances of a sustainable future.

A new paper says two university research centers have essentially functioned as a P.R. arm for the meat industry.

Over 60 years since Silent Spring, the Environmental Protection Agency still can’t seem to bring itself to curtail products like Roundup or paraquat.

Republicans are ramping up their rhetoric on gray wolves while research is showing how useful these predators can be.

A sustainable food system could be worth up to $10 trillion a year. Meanwhile, Congress can’t even pass a new version of the farm bill.

We know enough about microplastics to be worried. RFK Jr. should not be the only candidate with a plan to fight them.

The Timbisha Shoshone are legally permitted to live in Death Valley National Park. But the vegetation vital to their traditions and livelihoods is dying.

Congress approved the construction of the Yazoo Pumps more than 80 years ago. They might finally be built—and disproportionately benefit white landowners.

Getting reelected would be nice, but the administration also needs to guard against the damage a second Trump administration could do to the environment. Here’s how.

A new illustrated edition of “Entangled Life” shows how extensively we rely on fungi.

The petrochemical industry is obstructing a global treaty to reduce plastic pollution.