We asked Leah Penniman, cofounder of Soul Fire Farm and author of Farming While Black, about the healing power of soil and ending an unjust food system.

Books on our ballot this month look at wolves, turtles, animal activism, the psychology of climate change and a lot more.

Drought can lead to anger and even violence. Climate change will make things worse. One cop is on the beat.

Experts warn that we’ll keep having dangerous floods of feces unless state and the federal governments change the way big producers do business — and unless consumers start eating less meat.

Wildfire expert and Arizona State University professor Stephen Pyne answers five burning questions.

Books coming out this month include a series of terrifying climate-change novellas and a look at the occupation of Oregon’s Malheur Wildlife Refuge.

Researchers have identified a new tree species in Cameroon, but it only grew in a landscape that has now been destroyed by agriculture.

Populations of the green sea turtle, or honu, increased as the Hawaiian language made a comeback. Saving other languages from extinction could help protect biodiversity.

Books coming out this month also examine the dangerous world of wildlife trafficking, the history of poisonous chemicals and new ideas in agriculture.

Books coming out this month also examine endangered languages, the lingering effects of colonialism and how war hurts the environment.