Researchers are making huge strides towards creating functional, light-emitting plants. But the jury is out on whether these plants will offer environmental benefits or cause unexpected harms.
Anna Gibbs
Feature Articles
Troubled Tundra
Will the wild, still beauty of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — which turns 60 this year — outlive our busy meddling?
Michael Engelhard
Notes from the Edge of the World
Cape Horn represents how a single landscape, remote and mostly barren, can mean so many things — a homeland, a science experiment, a tourism resource, a symbol of wilderness.
Brian Buma
Florida's Lost Springs
For nearly half a century, a pointless dam on the Ocklawaha River has drowned 20 of Florida’s precious freshwater springs and endangered wildlife. It’s time it came down.
Keith Williams
Channeling Destruction
Ergodan’s plan to create a new waterway linking the Black and Marmara seas will disrupt the delicate ecological balance between them and put Turkey’s freshwater resources at risk.
Selin Ugurtas
To Our Readers
Summer of Reckoning
The environment doesn't exist in a vacuum. Those of us working to protect our natural world need to be mindful of that.
Maureen Nandini Mitra
Digging Deeper
The Nature of Our Nature
Are humans truly destructive at our core, or is there another story to be told?
Anna Lappé
Earth Island Reports
Making Home Gardening a Little Easier During the Pandemic
West County DIGS is helping families offer their kids off-screen learning and enrichment by providing plant starts and gardening tips.
Graciella Rossi
Mobilizing Resources for Indigenous Communities
Seeding Sovereignty seeks to “de-expert” and diversify the environmental movement.
Fiona McLeod
1000 Words
The Poetry of Seaweeds
Josie Iselin wants to show us that what’s happening in the ocean isn’t separate from our lives on land.
Maureen Nandini Mitra
Conversation
‘Nature Is Trying to Tell Us Something’
Physician and climate expert Aaron Bernstein talks about the Covid-19 pandemic and bridging the gap between medicine and the environment.
Zoe Loftus-Farren
In Review
In the Teton Range, “You See a Lot of Charity but Very Little Justice”
In Review: Billionaire Wilderness, by Justin Farrell
Austin Price
A Radical Reframing of the Climate Paradigm
In Review: The Citizen's Guide to Climate Success, by Mark Jaccard
Richard Pallardy
Voices
Seeing a Miracle in Every Overlooked Grain of Rice
Working to fix our broken food system, one meal at a time.
