Conservation of Resources

Nature Has Value. Could We Literally Invest in It?

“Natural asset companies” would put a market price on improving ecosystems, rather than on destroying them.

Most defunct golf courses get paved over, but a number are getting transformed into ecological life rafts for wildlife, plants — and people.

The decision in Parliament, opposed by environmentalists, will allow prospectors to start surveying the country’s waters.

In Romania, a walk in the woods blossomed into a mission to safeguard centuries-old beeches and the history that shaped them.

A bold engineering project might show a way to slow sea-level rise — and bring new imagination to the fight against climate change.