Unexpected flooding. Lengthy droughts. Somali pirates. All of these affect national and global security, and all stem from the same cause: the exploitation of natural resources.

In a new video by the Alliance for Global Conservation, retired Marine Corps Gen. Anthony Zinni, former commander in chief of U.S. Central Command,...

With more than half the world's population facing water shortages within 25 years, innovative ways to conserve water are key to supporting conservation and the livelihoods of local people.

To explore this issue the Alliance for Global Conservation interviewed Andrew Deutz, director of international relations at The Nature Conservancy, about...

By Anne Hallum and Rachel Hallum-Montes

In 1991, my 9-year-old daughter Rachel traveled with me to Guatemala where we were struck by the heartbreaking rural poverty and mudslides worsened by widespread deforestation.

We vividly remember holding a three-year-old child who was so listless and malnourished he could scarcely lift his...

Ethan Zohn, once a professional soccer player, proved he has what it takes to "outwit" and "outlast" when he won the reality T.V. show "Survivor: Africa." In 2009, Ethan was diagnosed with cancer—Hodgkin's lymphoma—which might have killed him if it weren't for a drug derived from an African flower called...

Women in developing countries are often disproportionately affected by environmental degradation. Beth Kaplin, a tropical ecologist, has seen this time and again while conducting field work in North Africa and other developing areas.

Here, she relates how the health of the natural world affects day-to-day life in developing countries. Having...

It has been estimated that with current extinction rates we lose one major new drug every two years. If the flower that led to the invention of the anti-cancer drug Vincristine had gone extinct, Dr. Sam Blackman's patient—Dana McCreesh's young son Brent—would have lost his fight...

One would scarcely expect environmental degradation to make pirates out of regular people. But that's exactly what happened when some Somali fishermen, desperate to make a living for themselves in overfished seas, turned to high seas piracy according to United Nations reports.

Competition for scarce natural resources such as water,...

The last remnants of the world's natural areas are quickly disappearing—taking with them species that have lived on the planet much longer than humans have, forests that help stabilize soils and ensure clean water supplies, potential cures for diseases, and the livelihoods of millions of people.

In fact,...