Our fascination with skulls is endangering animals and our ability to learn from them.
Eric FreedmanIllustrations by Jessica Roux
Feature Articles
Aging Farmers, Vanishing Farmland
As young people struggle to get their footing in Montana’s agriculture industry, development threatens the state’s farming future.
Jordan Unger
Wheel of Debt
Farms today have more than just the cost of land sucking up potential profits.
Beth Hoffman
Uncharted
An all-female Arctic research team spearheads a sustainable approach to polar science.
Elena Kazamia Images by Heïdi Sevestre
Saving Europe’s Blue Heart
Activists are rising up to protect Bosnia and Herzegovina’s wild rivers from a boom in small hydropower.
Peter Korchnak
Going Nuclear
A Russian state corporation plans to build a small, experimental nuclear plant to power a proposed gold mine in the Arctic.
Elena Tikhonova
To Our Readers
Regroup. Reroute.
Waiting for someone else to take action and save us is no longer an option.
Maureen Nandini Mitra
The Long Game
The Lord God Bird
Loss and transformation — the traces of who we’ve been remind us that we are always in relationship and accountable to our actions.
Carolyn Finney
Earth Island Reports
Taking on Petrochemical Giants
This grassroots group is fighting for environmental justice in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley,” and winning.
Journal Staff
Bringing BackSteelhead Trout
California’s Sisquoc and Manzana river watersheds once supported large populations of this endangered fish. Restoring backcountry creeks could help their numbers rebound.
Mauricio Gomez
1000 Words
Evoking Emotions for Saplings
Sculptor Patrick Dougherty wants to change how the world sees the inanimate stick.
Austin Price
Conversation
Having Babies Amid Climate Chaos
Two climate activists weigh in on why thinking about your uterus as the site of your political action can be problematic.
Maureen Nandini Mitra
In Review
For Peat’s Sake
Swamplands: Tundra Beavers, Quaking Bogs, and the Improbable World of Peat by Edward Struzik
Austin Price
Pest Control
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach
Michael Berry
Voices
Defending the Web of Life
Why I work with grassroots green groups to bring mission-critical lawsuits.