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Down to Earth

Down to Earth

The biodiversity crisis, explained

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Honey bees are not in peril. These bees are.

By Benji Jones

Introducing Down to Earth, our new project on the biodiversity crisis

By Eliza Barclay and Brian Anderson

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We want your feedback. Help Vox’s biodiversity reporting.

By Vox Staff

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What Lula’s stunning victory means for the imperiled Amazon rainforest

By Benji Jones

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Meanwhile, Congress is set to pass a huge wildlife conservation bill with bipartisan support

By Benji Jones

The US was poised to pass the biggest environmental law in a generation. What went wrong?

By Benji Jones

The mystery of the mimic plant

By Benji Jones

Coming soon: Beef, coffee, and chocolate, without a side of environmental destruction

By Benji Jones

Can capitalism and nature coexist?

By Benji Jones

7 reasons our planet might not be doomed after all

By Benji Jones

The world has a new plan to save nature. Here’s how it works — and how it could fail.

By Benji Jones

World leaders are racing to protect nature — but the definition of one word is tripping them up

By Benji Jones

World leaders have 2 weeks to agree on a plan to save nature

By Benji Jones

No one knows what “nature-based solutions” are

By Benji Jones

The surprising value of a small patch of grass

By Benji Jones

The strange, savage life of a freshwater mussel

By Benji Jones

Some people launder money. Other people launder cattle.

By Benji Jones

There’s a frightening new report about wildlife declines. But many are getting the story wrong.

By Benji Jones

These spectacular deep-sea creatures live in a potential mining hot spot

By Benji Jones

Earth’s future depends on the Amazon. This month, it’s up for a vote.

By Benji Jones

A better solution to Florida’s hurricane problem

By Benji Jones

Blowtorching spotted lanternflies is, in fact, a bad idea

By Benji Jones

The race to find 2,100 missing species before they go extinct

By Benji Jones

You probably have “forever chemicals” in your body. Here’s what that means.

By Benji Jones

Hidden inside the Inflation Reduction Act: $20 billion to help fix our farms

By Benji Jones

Listen to the heartbeat of the largest animal to have ever lived

By Benji Jones

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Why scientists are desperate to find a salamander that’s been missing for 71 years

More than 2,000 species worldwide are considered lost. Could finding them avert extinctions?

By Benji Jones

Beavers are heat wave heroes

By Benji Jones

Otters are thriving in … Iowa?

By Benji Jones

This could be the coolest summer of the rest of your life

By Benji Jones

How Yellowstone’s animals survive a catastrophic flood

By Benji Jones

A teensy, tiny glimmer of hope for polar bears

By Benji Jones

Why investors suddenly care about saving the environment

By Benji Jones

The pollution from Russia’s war will poison Ukraine for decades

By Benji Jones

Here’s where dangerous ticks are spreading across the US — and what to do about them

By Benji Jones

The eel-shaped parasite that threatens a $7 billion economy in the Great Lakes

By Benji Jones

What’s killing the world’s biggest fish?

By Benji Jones

One-fifth of all crocodiles, snakes, and other reptiles are threatened with extinction

By Benji Jones

Hacking coral sex to save an ecosystem in peril

By Benji Jones

Growing up Maasai and the art of healing the Earth

By Benji Jones

Animal sounds are a marvel of evolution. We can’t afford to drown them out.

By Neel Dhanesha

The bizarre deep-sea creatures living on the Endurance shipwreck

By Benji Jones

The troubling link between electric cars and ... flamingos?

By Benji Jones

The loss of insects is an apocalypse worth worrying about

By Benji Jones

Oops, cleaning the Great Pacific Garbage Patch was probably a bad idea

By Benji Jones