EDF Voices: Ecosystems

The Endangered Species Act has remained so durable for so long, and proven so successful in so many ways, because it is, at root, so profoundly and so fundamentally conservative.

When you ask how nature can help meet the need we as a society are trying to meet, surprisingly positive things can happen.

Innovative maps prove indigenous management of tropical forests make environmental and economic sense.

A beekeeping couple learns to adapt, in the same way that many farmers adopt new practices that are good for the environment and the bottom line.

More than fifty years have passed since Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring", yet because of our broken chemical regulatory system, we are still facing the same problems.

A new report from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts that global warming will cut food production -- even as demand rises.

How Cuba and its fishermen are working to preserve the island's extraordinary marine diversity.

Properly, designed, resilient landscapes can be beautiful, as well as functional.

Once there were millions of lesser prairie chickens, but now they are near extinction. EDF has a plan to save this iconic species.

A bird's-eye tour of her "beautiful, damaged homeland" makes vivid her studies of wetland ecology.