When chimpanzees fall ill, they don’t have the option of pharmacies or prescriptions. Instead, they draw on an inherited knowledge...
The U.S. is at a crossroads. A handful of opportunistic, megalomaniacal billionaires and corporate power have flooded politics with unprecedented...
In the November 2024 elections, 70% of U.S. elected offices went uncontested—a sobering sign of a democracy in crisis. Systemic barriers,...
Author, broadcaster and scholar Thom Hartmann warns of the existential threat of a virulent new oligarchy: the third frontal assault by the...
Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina exposed the fault lines of American society: racial injustice, environmental neglect, economic abandonment, and...
Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin grew up in extreme poverty in the northern rainforest of Guatemala during Guatemala’s brutal decades-long civil war....
Photo by Jason Halley, California State University, Chico by Cynthia Daley, Ph.D. Cynthia Daley, and co-founder and Director of the...
The beloved Buddhist teacher and intellectual Joanna Macy died on July 19, 2025. A profound teacher, author, and activist, Joanna was a scholar of...
Across the globe, the same forces driving ecological collapse—extractivism, patriarchy, and unchecked capitalism—are also fueling the erosion of...
Is a river a being? Can it suffer, heal, or speak — if not in words, then in water’s own fluent language? Robert Macfarlane These are the...
What if animals used names like we do — not just sounds, but unique vocal labels to call out to one another across the wild? A groundbreaking...
Beneath the surface of the ocean, a secret choreography unfolds—timed not by clocks or calendars, but by the silver light of the Moon. Coral...