The climate crisis is worsening many of the economic and social inequalities already faced by women and girls, making it harder to access health care,...
A group of children gathers in a forest clearing. Before anything else begins, they check in—with themselves, with one another, and with the world aro...
How often do we talk about oceans, trees, or birds in everyday life? How about glaciers, shrubs, or bugs? Nature-related words like these are easily r...
Political debates about democracy often focus on culture, leadership, or polarization. But history points to a more prosaic—and more powerful—driver o...
We are not living through a sexual renaissance. By the most basic empirical measures, we are having less sex than previous generations. What looks lik...
Microplastics, plastic particles smaller than 5 millimeters, can be found in land, air, and water, and have infiltrated our food chain, resulting in f...
Hunting is considered critical to human evolution by many researchers who believe that several characteristics that distinguish humans from our closes...
On February 26, 1852, the HMS Birkenhead struck a cluster of rocks off the coast of South Africa. With only a few lifeboats for the 638 people aboard,...
Nature is astonishingly diverse. Across the planet’s oceans, forests, grasslands, and cities, living beings interact in ways that defy rigid expectati...
