Preserving Our Natural Wonders Is a Patriotic Cause Worth Fighting For The right to protest matters By Ben Jealous March 28, 2025
Can This Former Game Warden Save America’s Endangered Species? Wildlife takes a backseat during Brian Nesvik's first hearing to lead the US Fish and Wildlife Service By Lindsey Botts March 27, 2025 In this story: wildlife, animal rights, saving wild places, federal policy
History Is Calling The Sierra Club and our allies will keep making progress, no matter who is president By Ben Jealous March 26, 2025
To Save the Tiniest Turtle in North America, Scientists Are Rebuilding Bogs From Scratch The work is part of a growing movement of scientists starting with habitat conservation By Carrie Arnold March 26, 2025 In this story: wetlands, animals, endangered species, conservation, Gee Whiz
Alaskan Tribes and Activists Are Ready to Resist Ambler Road, Again The proposed route would slash through pristine Indigenous land Story and Illustrations by Sarah Gilman March 25, 2025 In this story: Alaska, indigenous communities, activism
We All Need a Little Dose of Joy Looking for some rays of light? So are we. By Sierra Staff March 25, 2025 In this story: Joy, Wonder
Radioactive Shadow Workers The treatment of oil and gas field waste is a dirty industry’s dirtiest secret By Justin Nobel March 24, 2025 In this story: dirty fuels, oil, natural gas, health, toxics
What’s Happening at the Bureau of Land Management? A new Sagebrush Rebellion threatens to transform the agency’s mandate from conservation to energy production By Alexander Nazaryan March 23, 2025 In this story: climate change, Trump, federal policy, politics
Trump’s EPA Is at War With the Americans It Is Supposed to Protect Environmental protection matters By Ben Jealous March 21, 2025
US Banks Quit Climate Alliances and Targets. What Does This Mean for a Green Transition? Campaigners and academics weigh in on what the Net Zero Banking Alliance achieved By Siddhant Pusdekar March 20, 2025 In this story: fossil free finance, Sustainable Finance, climate change
What Does "Plastic Neutral" Really Mean? Companies are aiming to reduce their plastic footprint with offsets. Environmentalists are skeptical. By Laura Stewart March 19, 2025 In this story: plastic
Saving the Trees for the Forest A Washington conservation group is pushing the state to protect legacy old growth By Amal Ahmed March 18, 2025 In this story: forests, state forests, saving wild places
New Challenges Put Bald Eagle Recovery in Peril Climate change and development could threaten this remarkable comeback By Molly McCluskey March 17, 2025 In this story: wildlife, saving wild places, Our Wild America, animals, conservation
Here’s How Medical Workers Are Lowering Health Care’s Carbon Footprint Anesthetic gases are a primary pollutant, so hospital staff are making a switch By Shi En Kim March 16, 2025 In this story: health, climate change
They Cannot Rob Us of Our History and Our Place in America’s Story DEI is not only just and moral; it's also unifying By Ben Jealous March 14, 2025
Under Trump, the EPA Takes First Step to Torpedo “Endangerment Finding” on Greenhouse Gases Administrator Lee Zeldin derides “climate change religion” as reason to abandon clean air and water regulations By Dana Drugmand March 13, 2025 In this story: EPA, climate change, Trump, environmental law, air
Farmers Feeling the Pain After Conservation Funding Frozen The Trump administration, with DOGE, is pulling the rug from under growers and producers across the country By Juliet Grable March 12, 2025 In this story: agriculture, Trump, politics, conservation
A Texas Research Facility Preserves Some of the Country’s Most Bizarre Endangered Species Researchers unravel the mysteries of an aquifer-dwelling blind salamander and its aquatic neighbors By Hailey Smalley March 11, 2025 In this story: animals
Should I Be Worried About Bird Flu? H5N1 is making headlines in 2025 even though it’s been around for a surprisingly long time By Melody Schreiber March 10, 2025 In this story: health, birds, agriculture, concentrated animal feeding operation
Against the Current Why are Chinook salmon moving to the urban creeks of San Jose in increasing numbers? Text and photographs by Jeremy Miller March 9, 2025 In this story: salmon, fish, wildlife, endangered species