Widespread anger at a billion-dollar fishing industry is shaping Alaska’s key Senate race — and could determine which party takes control of the chamber in the midterm elections.

Scientists observed a family of pygmy raccoons near a Cozumel beach club learning from one another how to craft balls from paper, an indication that the animals have a culture.

Is AI “another species” in Our Natural World?

Ursula Le Guin and her Tao Te Ching translation is even more timely now.

The move to repeal the ‘roadless rule’ would pave the way for road construction and logging in nearly 45 million acres of untouched back country.

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Trump Leaves Us Behind

Illustration by Rebecca Dvorin Strong from the kid’s book in progress, Sing Your Name, story by Brenda Peterson www.rebeccadstrong.com

The sensual fluidity of dolphins

Matriarchy and Patriarchy in Animals

Trump lacks self-reflection, so all must reflect him

What our animal companions teach us about life and beyond.

Carry a Little Hope Today

Where is Black Lives Matters Now?

Imagine it!

Can We Leave Him Behind?

The Pathology of Privilege

Is the U.S. war plan Armageddon?

Our best civil defense is ourselves

Incisive questions for the architect of Donald Trump's cruelest policies: how we got here and what comes next.

A Valentine for animals.

At some point in our lives, we will all need a nurse.

At some point in our lives, we will all need nurses.

Compared to other animals, Trump is facing his own extinction

What if our soulmates are also animals?

Just as we save animals, they also save us.

Just as we save animals, they also save us.

Wolves make our world greener

Our bond with other animals is another family model

Spencer Parker has never seen so many dolphin strandings in his more than 20 years as an L.A. County lifeguard.

Seattle’s annual Independent Bookstore Day kicks off Saturday, April 26 with a slate of special events. But most participating bookstores actually give patrons 10 days to get their special passports s...

By Brenda Peterson | November 7, 2024

Phil Cook · Album · 2025 · 11 songs

“The systems we’ve learned to depend on are harming us and our planet — but what an opportunity for great change this can be!”

We sing because hearing is the first and last human sense; we sing to blend our voices and find harmony in a world so often dissonant; we…

Brenda Peterson is the author of the new novel Stiletto . Her many other books include the novel Duck and Cover .  ...

Brenda Peterson was raised to think that the chosen will be swept into heaven. A new memoir reveals how she reversed her thinking and why she now believes the chosen have muddy feet. Photography by An...

Here’s the story of Squilla, a rare North Atlantic right whale mother, and her firstborn. To help their species continue, they’d have to navigate an increasingly dangerous ocean.

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In the week since the United States presidential election, Elon Musk has used X, the social media platform he owns,

By Brenda Peterson | November 7, 2024