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Nature, Culture and Spirit
Cowpuppy: What Cows Are Really Saying When They Moo
Article

When neuroscientist Gregory Berns and his wife set out to build a small, regenerative farm in rural Georgia, they didn’t expect cows to become...

Intelligence in Nature
What Neuroscience Reveals About Animal Minds
Article

When Gregory Berns joins our call, he isn’t sitting in a lab or a lecture hall. He’s calling from his farm in rural Georgia, and he’s in the...

Justice
Women Weaving the Way Forward: A Conversation with Zainab Salbi
Article

“Women leaders acknowledge how the protection and restoration of nature becomes lasting when it is rooted in people’s wellbeing and...

Indigeneity
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Pass Historic Youth-Led Rights of Nature Resolution
Article

At the Eastern Band of Cherokee Tribal Council meeting on January 8, 2026, the Council read and unanimously passed a historic resolution affirming...

Media
To Be Seen by an Octopus: Sy Montgomery on Attention and Kinship
Article

For much of modern history, humans have been taught to see other species at a distance — as resources, symbols, data points, or representatives of...

Art
Making the Invisible Visible: Photographing Native Bees with Krystle Hickman
Article

Bees are often talked about as a single, familiar species involved in pollination and threatened with decline due to environmental threats, but that...

Eco-Nomics
Making Things Worse Pays Off Now. Cory Doctorow Explains Why.
Article

When Cory Doctorow spoke at Bioneers in 2017, the warning signs were already there. But in the years since, the tech landscape has become more...

Environmental Education
Beyond the Page: How Bay Nature Connects People to Place
Article

Environmental change doesn’t begin with policy or technology alone. It begins with attention — with the stories we tell, the places we come to...

Justice
Listening Is Not Neutral: New Ethical Guardrails for Animal Communication Technologies
Article

In recent years, scientists have begun using artificial intelligence to analyze animal communication at a previously impossible scale and level of...

Youth
The Director of New Leaders Initiative on What it Takes to Become a Young Activist
Article

Mona Shomali is the Director of the New Leaders Initiative at Earth Island Institute. Each year the New Leaders Initiative selects six outstanding...

Indigeneity
Colorado Mountain Becomes the First Mountain in the U.S. to Own Itself
Article

On June 7, 2025, a quiet but revolutionary shift in law and land took place in Colorado. A Mountain in the San Luis Valley became the first mountain...

Eco-Nomics
Using the Law to Challenge Big Plastic
Article

Written by Scott Hochberg, General Counsel and Litigation Director at Earth Island Institute Plastic pollution is one of the most pressing...

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