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From chimpanzees to dolphins to geese, a striking range of animals use remedies that grow naturally in their environments. We meet primatologist Elodie Freymann, whose work in the forests of Uganda and Peru has given us new insights into how animals self-medicate.
Jasmine Smith shares the journey behind passing the first-of-its-kind Rights of the Long Person Resolution in the Eastern Band of Cherokee Council., the power of young Indigenous women organizing together, and what it means to indigenize the law by speaking for “that which cannot speak for itself.”
Labor organizer Saru Jayaraman makes a clarion call to action: support workers across the United States who are saying there’s always been an affordability crisis and are asking politicians what has democracy done for me lately? Addressing inequality worse than the infamous Gilded Age requires ensuring living wages for all.
Three frontline caregivers connect Black maternal mortality in the U.S. and the collapse of maternal care in Gaza.
Sociologist, storyteller, and best-selling author Anna Malaika Tubbs calls for dismantling the key system that has determined who actually gets to be considered human in the United States: The American patriarchy. She says that transforming the forefathers' vision of a republic of men requires deep change at the personal, community, and national levels.
Two ground breaking figures in the struggle for an equitable and healthy food system exchange views and strategies on the global polycrisis, capitalism, justice in the food system and food sovereignty.
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Primatologist Elodie Freymann explores what chimpanzees, medicinal plants, and Indigenous knowledge systems reveal about the shared “forest pharmacies” humans and animals have relied on for generations.
Through photography, observation, and community science, Krystle Hickman is documenting the lives of native bees that most people never notice. In this conversation, she shares her observations and insights and discusses how anyone can help protect the pollinators living right outside their door.
In this excerpt from “Against the American Grain: A Borderlands History of Resistance,” cultural ecologist and environmental historian Gary Paul Nabhan tells the story of how a 1948 poem by Woody Guthrie continues to resonate today.
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