While the dangerous effects of climate change continue to worsen, legal efforts to address a range of environmental issues are also on the rise. As an environmental lawyer, I see that most of these ...

Will the Great Lakes, one of the natural wonders of the United States, be allowed to go to court to defend their rights to exist on equal terms with the human race? Last month, a bill was introduced ...

At a time when more than half the world’s population lives in cities and people spend about 90 percent of their lives indoors, our relationship with the natural world has never been more distant or ...

“Rights of nature” is a movement aimed at advancing the understanding that ecosystems, wildlife and the Earth are living beings with inherent rights to exist, evolve and regenerate. Legal rights are ...

Discover how ports, shipping, tourism, and offshore wind can drive development while protecting marine ecosystems.

It’s not the students’ fault. Ecology and evolution offerings in the biology school curriculum are slim pickings: blink and you miss them among a sea of cells and neurons. The education system has ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In an era of rapid globalization, economic growth has come with trade-offs. To make ...

Have you ever noticed how calm and grounded you feel after spending time in a forest, by the sea, or under a big tree? That feeling is not a coincidence—there’s growing scientific evidence showing how ...

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