Bee Alert: Is a Controversial Herbicide Harming Honeybees?
Recent court cases have focused on the possible effects of glyphosate, found in Monsanto’s Roundup, on humans. But researchers are…
For the Kayapó, a Long Battle to Save Their Amazon Homeland
For more than four decades, Kokoró Mekranotire has watched with dismay as outsiders have laid waste to ever-larger swaths of…
A Golden Spike Would Mark the Earth’s Next Epoch: But Where?
At first glance, these nine sites scattered across the globe seem unremarkable. A peat bog in Poland’s Sudeten Mountains. Searsville…
How Mounting Demand for Rubber Is Driving Tropical Forest Loss
The elephants are gone. The trees are logged out. The Beng Per Wildlife Sanctuary in central Cambodia is largely destroyed,…
Despite Official Vote, the Evidence of the Anthropocene Is Clear
Charles Darwin upset a lot of people with his 1859 publication On the Origin of Species. Like Copernicus and Galileo…
An Amazon Defender Stands Up for Her Land and Her People
Juma Xipaia has been defending her people’s land in the Brazilian Amazon since she was 13, when her eyes were…
Chicken Frenzy: A State Awash in Hog Farms Faces a Poultry Boom
Thirty years ago, North Carolina gained the dubious distinction of having the largest hog slaughterhouse in the world. Two eastern…
How to Repair the World’s Broken Carbon Offset Markets
In the wake of the Glasgow climate summit, governments must now return to the daunting challenge of making good on…
With Lula Back, Can Brazil Turn the Tide on Amazon Destruction?
The month before Brazil’s October 30 presidential election was the most brutal of Jair Bolsonaro’s term as president. Landowners rushed…
Edible Extinction: Why We Need to Revive Global Food Diversity
In August 2020, inside the cupping room of a London roastery, a team of botanists and baristas gathered to taste…