A 38-day expedition in the remote Alto Mayo region, where development threatens wild habitats, turned up one previously unknown animal after another.

The president can still do a lot before he leaves the White House.

Every farm, even the scenic ones with red barns and rolling hills, is a kind of environmental crime scene, an echo of whatever wilderness it once replaced.

Climate purity is a recipe for failure.

We tracked $86 million in U.S. money that was supposed to go toward panda conservation in China.

We tracked $86 million in U.S. money that was supposed to go toward panda conservation in China.

A Times investigation found that zoos knew conservation money went toward apartment buildings and roads. But they wanted to keep displaying pandas, so nobody looked too closely.

State-controlled companies now run an industry once known for its acid pits, radioactive waste and smugglers.

In the 1990s, China began sending pandas to foreign zoos to be bred, in the hope that future generations could be released into the wild. It hasn’t gone as planned.

A motorcade through the capital revived “panda diplomacy” between Washington and Beijing for the first time in nearly a year.