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We Don’t Have to Anthropomorphize Animals to Care About Them

Assigning human qualities to animals is dangerous for them — and for us.
August 8, 2025
by
Miriam Bahagijo
Assigning human qualities to animals is dangerous for them — and for us.
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Regulate AI — to Protect Jobs, Our Brains, and the Planet

Do we really want to push our climate to the brink because of a technology that offers convenience?
August 7, 2025
by
Sonali Kolhatkar
Do we really want to push our climate to the brink because of a technology that offers convenience?
Voices

Messengers of the Eternal: Trees in Life and Literature

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.
August 6, 2025
by
Tim Weed
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.
Voices

Biomimicry Needs to Keep Evolving

The emerging science of social biomimicry still places too much value on human constructs. There are ways around that.
August 1, 2025
by
Nolan Monaghan
The emerging science of social biomimicry still places too much value on human constructs. There are ways around that.
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50 Years Later: The Vietnam War’s Enduring Effect on the Tiger Trade

The war created systems that enabled trafficking in tigers and other animals. We can finally address that legacy and help both people and wildlife.
July 29, 2025
by
Rob Pickles
The war created systems that enabled trafficking in tigers and other animals. We can finally address that legacy and help both people and wildlife.
The Ask

A Memoir of Resistance Shows Readers the Dangers of Fossil-Fuel Pipelines — and How to Fight Them

Holler, Denali Sai Nalamalapu’s new graphic novel, shares the stories of everyday people who stood up against the Mountain Valley Pipeline.
July 25, 2025
by
John R. Platt
Holler, Denali Sai Nalamalapu’s new graphic novel, shares the stories of everyday people who stood up against the Mountain Valley Pipeline.
hurricane harvey
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Trump’s NOAA Cuts Put Coastal Communities at Risk

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.
July 24, 2025
by
Sabrina B. Valenti
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.
Voices

Footprints and Fences: In Search of Hedgehogs

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.
July 17, 2025
by
David Overend
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.
Commentaries

Can a Powerful International Wildlife Conservation Meeting Help Save Sharks?

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.
July 16, 2025
by
Dr. David Shiffman
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.
Voices

Antidote for Despair in the Shawnee National Forest

In the ruins of abandoned strip mines, a broad movement aims to create the nation’s first “Climate Preserve.”
July 9, 2025
by
Jeff Biggers
In the ruins of abandoned strip mines, a broad movement aims to create the nation’s first “Climate Preserve.”

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