Botanist Pablo Guerrero has been visiting Atacama cacti all his life. They’re not adapting well to a drier climate, booming mining and plant collection.

It opens up new avenues for research, not only in desolate regions like the Atacama Desert but also in other extreme environments such as Antarctic ice, deep-ocean vents, and arid regions worldwide.

Conservation efforts and climate finance in South America are too focused on iconic biodiversity hot spots, like the Amazon rainforest, at the peril of crucial desert, wetland and other ecosystems, ...

National Geographic's enterprising photographers have helped readers explore and learn about our beautiful world through their images for more than a century. Here is their best work from the past ...

To illustrate that, Beiser travels to several sources of production, including a lithium mine baking in Chile’s Atacama ...

One in three species of cactus are at risk of extinction, yet, despite this, there is limited research in the area. The IUCN ...

Each chapter provides a vivid and often in-person reckoning with one part of the supply chain, taking readers from the crayon ...

The metals contained in that sale-priced gizmo spawn huge environmental damage and fuel abuses, writes Vince Beiser.

Following the biodiversity and climate conventions, a United Nations conference began in Saudi Arabia on Monday. Its goal is ...

When it comes to mining, the choice is never between bad and good but only bad and less bad,” writes Vince Beiser, the author ...

We take a look at the current best predictions for what the solar system will look like throughout the rest of the Sun's life ...