Sun setting over the ocean

Our reporters showcased the power and importance of journalism covering wildlife, climate change, and environmental justice.

Sun setting over the ocean

Our reporters showcased the power and importance of journalism covering wildlife, climate change, and environmental justice.

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TOP STORIES

Misty mountains in the rising sun

These expert opinions address opportunities to make a difference — and point out a few of our failures.

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Really, they do — they just don’t think you want to talk about it. So stop being afraid of pushback, break the “climate silence,” and start a conversation.

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HEADLINES

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We asked conservation researchers around the world to send us their favorite papers of 2025. They address the planet’s most pressing problems — and important solutions.

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Before ending the year, we wanted to highlight this eclectic assortment of reading gems we couldn’t fit into our earlier book reviews.

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Proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act and park staffing cuts are putting the endangered coastal bird in danger.

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Yet Trump and megacorporations are gambling with new nuclear reactors to supercharge artificial intelligence (and profits).

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Heat deaths here have soared 650% in the past decade. Addressing inequality will save lives.

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Unintended consequences can become indispensable — in architecture and in efforts to preserve life on Earth.

A glass globe on a beach captures a sunset

Forests, soil, plastic waste, war debris, and a darker ocean also appear on the annual ‘horizon scan’ addressing conservation priorities for the years ahead.

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These books for young readers will delight and encourage interest in mammals, insects, octopuses, and other creatures in our shared environment.

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Humans are to blame for the decline of these amazing apes — but people are also responsible for saving orphaned orangutans and helping them learn how to survive in the wild.

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environmental newsThe Revelator, an environmental news and commentary initiative of the Center for Biological Diversity, provides editorially independent reporting, analysis and stories at the intersection of politics, conservation, art, culture, endangered species, climate change, economics and the future of wild species, wild places and the planet.

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