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, explains how environmental degradation can lead to global instability.

According to a recent UN report, the poorest of the poor, people living on less than $2 per day, get more than half of their income from the benefits that nature provides. We can't reach our conservation goals without addressing poverty.

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.

Women in developing countries are often disproportionately affected by environmental degradation. Beth Kaplin, a tropical ecologist, has seen this tim...

One would scarcely expect environmental degradation to make pirates out of regular people. But that's exactly what happened when some Somali fishermen...

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 h...