Ideas

Our annual recommendations offer ways to recharge, make the most of the season, and come back ready to fight for progress.

Assigning human qualities to animals is dangerous for them — and for us.

Do we really want to push our climate to the brink because of a technology that offers convenience?

To plant a tree is to affirm one’s faith in the future, while at the same time reckoning with the sadness inherent in the comparative brevity of a human lifespan.

The emerging science of social biomimicry still places too much value on human constructs. There are ways around that.

The war created systems that enabled trafficking in tigers and other animals. We can finally address that legacy and help both people and wildlife.

Holler, Denali Sai Nalamalapu’s new graphic novel, shares the stories of everyday people who stood up against the Mountain Valley Pipeline.

I helped restore wetlands that kept the Gulf coast safe while my colleagues tracked hurricanes. Now we’re out of a job — just in time for hurricane season.

This is how hedgehogs coexist with us in the urban environment. Their time is when most of us are sleeping; their place is in the gaps and disregarded spaces of our busy city lives.

Seven proposals at the upcoming Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species conference of the parties would benefit up to 70 species of sharks…if they pass.