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Voices

What My Environmental Studies Students Taught Me About Building Community During Crisis

We can’t recover from a hurricane — or government oppression — without deepening our ties to each other.
June 13, 2025
by
Mallory McDuff
We can’t recover from a hurricane — or government oppression — without deepening our ties to each other.
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Op-Eds

The Myth of the Cowboy and Its Enduring Influence on Public Policy

Livestock ranchers receive undue praise and tax dollars while they disregard damage to life on the planet, in a political climate that prioritizes profit.
June 11, 2025
by
Tess Wilkinson
Livestock ranchers receive undue praise and tax dollars while they disregard damage to life on the planet, in a political climate that prioritizes profit.
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Op-Eds

Rangers in the Red

In the wake of Donald Trump’s executive order halting foreign aid, severely imperiled species — and the people protecting them — hang in the balance.
May 23, 2025
by
Joe Figel
In the wake of Donald Trump’s executive order halting foreign aid, severely imperiled species — and the people protecting them — hang in the balance.
Op-Eds

Armenia: A Small Nation With a Huge Biodiversity Story

The country offers six important lessons ahead of hosting next year’s United Nations Biological Diversity Convention.
May 20, 2025
by
Ruben Khachatryan
The country offers six important lessons ahead of hosting next year’s United Nations Biological Diversity Convention.
Voices

Palm Oil Continues to Plague Borneo’s Orangutans, Elephants, and Other Icons

Despite 35 years of awareness campaigns, palm oil plantations still devastate the landscape of this biodiversity hotspot and the animals who depend on native forests.
May 16, 2025
by
Marina De León
Despite 35 years of awareness campaigns, palm oil plantations still devastate the landscape of this biodiversity hotspot and the animals who depend on native forests.
Voices

Who Heals the Earth’s Healers? Ways to Avert Burnout for Environmental Advocates

You’re helping nature — but nature also has ways to help you, make you more resilient, and relieve the stress caused by environmental destruction.
May 14, 2025
by
Colleen M. Crary, Ph.D.
You’re helping nature — but nature also has ways to help you, make you more resilient, and relieve the stress caused by environmental destruction.
Editorials

Why The Revelator Banned AI Articles and Art

Artificial intelligence consumes too much energy and water and produces too much pollution for any ethical person or organization who cares about the planet to use it.
May 13, 2025
by
John R. Platt
Artificial intelligence consumes too much energy and water and produces too much pollution for any ethical person or organization who cares about the planet to use it.
Op-Eds

‘Active Management’ Harms Forests — And It’s About to Get a Whole Lot Worse

Forest management approaches promoted as “resilience,” “restoration,” “fuel reduction,” and “forest health” often degrade natural systems and reduce carbon stocks.
May 9, 2025
by
Dominick A. DellaSala and David Lindenmayer and Diana Six
Forest management approaches promoted as “resilience,” “restoration,” “fuel reduction,” and “forest health” often degrade natural systems and reduce carbon stocks.
Op-Eds

Professional Hunters Kill a Shocking Number of Animals in South Africa

Tens of thousands of wild animals, from spring hares to rhinos, died in the name of sport and entertainment in 2023.
May 8, 2025
by
Stephanie Klarmann
Tens of thousands of wild animals, from spring hares to rhinos, died in the name of sport and entertainment in 2023.
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Voices

Save This Species: The Bettas of Bangka Island

You might not think to look for fish in a forest, but look fast: These amazing fish depend on a disappearing swamp forest on an island in Indonesia.
May 7, 2025
by
Josie South, Ph.D.
You might not think to look for fish in a forest, but look fast: These amazing fish depend on a disappearing swamp forest on an island in Indonesia.

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