(Second of three parts) The origins of the padrino system can be traced back to the Spanish colonial period, a time when social mobility was heavily r...
(First of three parts) “How would you describe our current zeitgeist?” I stumbled upon this question some weeks ago in a Facebook post that was unmist...
By Vicky Bond, PhD Bycatch We know that practices like bottom trawling and longline fishing claim the lives of iconic marine animals like sea turtles....
The unsustainable practice of killing fish for human consumption not only harms them but countless other marine animals die as “unintended” bycatch in...
Climate change is no longer an abstraction. I can literally see it at my front door. My figs ripened in October 2024, which has never happened before ...
Fresh water is critical to the survival of ecosystems and living beings worldwide. However, as much as we all depend on water, some industries are not...
What led humans on the unique path of cultural development? And can we do anything useful with newly reconstructed histories of this process? Culture ...
There is a great deal of attention in modern societies to inequality and the social problems it causes. Often inequality is considered to be the unavo...
In thousands of ways, we are taught to accept the world we live in as the only possible one, but thousands of other ways of organizing homes, cities, ...