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We Are One Step Closer to Understanding Whales. What Now?

We Are One Step Closer to Understanding Whales. What Now?

We Are One Step Closer to Understanding Whales. What Now? An AI model originally trained to make music can turn any sound—including human speech—into sperm whale clicks.

Science & Nature Ocean Life

A Living Map

A Living Map

A Living Map In a year of uncertainty, the living world has offered guidance—answers written in feathers, roots, and time.

The Overview Deep Ecology

A teenager holds their phone to the light.

A teenager holds their phone to the light.

Could Social Media Serve the People Instead of Profits? Privatized, profit-first social media undermines democracy and climate action. What if we reimagined social media instead as a public good?

Climate Solutions Movement Building

2025, By the Numbers: What a Year of Climate Whiplash Really Looked Like

2025, By the Numbers: What a Year of Climate Whiplash Really Looked Like

2025, By the Numbers: What a Year of Climate Whiplash Really Looked Like Taking stock of a climate year that moved faster than we could process.

Democracy The Understory

A digital passport for a garment.

A digital passport for a garment.

The Case for Giving Garments a Passport The EU is gearing up for new regulation that requires every garment to have a digital “passport.” The initiative could provide a blueprint f

Ethical Fashion Climate Solutions

Miu wears Amomento top, Séfr shorts

Miu wears Amomento top, Séfr shorts

What Happens When a Town Governs From the Future? In Japan, an unconventional framework for governance is bringing generations together to imagine life decades from now.

Climate Solutions Movement Building

How Sports Teams Are Turning Fans Into Eco Allies

How Sports Teams Are Turning Fans Into Eco Allies

How Sports Teams Are Turning Fans Into Eco Allies Sporting events are one of the most trusted and effective advertising channels. Why not use them to move public opinion on climate change?

Climate Solutions Movement Building

Merchant Ship passing Zembra, Tunisia, 2023

Merchant Ship passing Zembra, Tunisia, 2023

Following The Longest Butterfly Migration On Earth Photographer Lucas Foglia spent years following the painted lady’s transcontinental migration.

Photography Science & Nature

A flamboyance of pink flamingos fly in sync.

A flamboyance of pink flamingos fly in sync.

On Murders, Murmurations, and Other Ways of Being Together From a murder of crows to a murmuration of starlings, the animal world reminds us that nothing exists in isolation.

Deep Ecology The Overview

Redefining Nature: How Changing Words Could Change the World

Redefining Nature: How Changing Words Could Change the World

Redefining Nature: How Changing Words Could Change the World How might we change if we considered ourselves part of, rather than separate from, the rest of the natural world?

Climate Solutions Deep Ecology

A dead bird lies on a bed of flowers.

A dead bird lies on a bed of flowers.

Giving Our Bodies Back to the Earth: The Rise of Natural Burial What if your body could nourish the land long after you’re gone?

Climate Solutions Science & Nature

Why Are Famous Chefs Fighting to Keep ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Cookware?

Why Are Famous Chefs Fighting to Keep ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Cookware?

Why Are Famous Chefs Fighting to Keep ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Cookware? What unfolded in California wasn’t just a one-off fight. It was the blueprint for a larger lobbying campaign to stop bans on Teflon cookware

Democracy The Understory

A wildlife crossing in Banff national park.

A wildlife crossing in Banff national park.

Wildlife Crossings Reconnect a Natural World Divided by Highways For decades, wildlife crossings have helped large mammals navigate highways. What if they were everywhere—and assisted pollinators, too?

Climate Solutions Science & Nature

A budding plant rests in a person's palm.

A budding plant rests in a person's palm.

The Rights of Nature: Rewriting the Law For a Living Planet It’s time to recognize the rights of more-than-human life and ecosystems in our legal system.

Climate Solutions Deep Ecology

The Race to Grow More Food on Less Land

The Race to Grow More Food on Less Land

The Race to Grow More Food on Less Land Food has been left out of the climate conversation for far too long despite its oversized impact, argues author Michael Grunwald.

Climate Solutions Future of Food

Farmer in red bucket hat hugging and kissing black and white cow's face.

Farmer in red bucket hat hugging and kissing black and white cow's face.

In the Peruvian Andes, a Blueprint for Sustainable Farming and Cultural Survival Photographer Diego Vourakis explores the lives of agricultural workers in Peruvian Andean communities.

Photography