A Brief Guide for Earth Explorers

A most thoughtful book titled 'Sensoria' helps us delight in our sensual engagements and moral imaginations and appreciate and absorb the magnificent world we cohabit with others.

A previously unseen filing captures the state of the institution seven months after Donald Trump’s takeover.

An Associated Press story shows how some farmers join soil science to spiritual commitments to land—and why similar conversations may await at farmers markets.

“Scientists typically write cautiously because they know that uncertainty remains and knowledge evolves, sometimes dramatically overturning previous understandings. They do not want to outrun the evid...

Africa installs a record 17 GW of solar in 2026 - three-quarters of it is distributed solar, which is largely invisible.

From Cairo’s Royal Mummies Hall to Paris’s self-questioning Momies exhibition, a journey through grave robbing, scientific discovery, and the muddy ethics of displaying the dead.

Image captured in early June shows animal foraging in the waterway in first since early 1900s, signaling its recovery

Prehistory, agriculture, dynasties, and solar religion

The Trump administration is planning to dramatically reshape the data the Census...

. . . and Belonging to Nature in California’s Sierra Nevada

How the death of the nuclear deal cut down the Iranians pushing their country toward openness

At a UN-sponsored meeting in Tehran, Iranian officials, religious leaders, and environmental scholars imagined a different future.

A Terranaut Dispatch from the Grand Egyptian Museum

On Memorial Day in the USA, where we honor those who serve and all too often die in the military, I think of my dad, James Carlton Taylor.

On epistemology, humility, and the quest for truth

Before I became a professor I spent fifteen formative years as a California State Park Lifeguard at Huntington Beach, Ventura, and Malibu.

A brief encounter with the man who put bison back on the plains — and a thank‐you to a quiet hero of conservation

After Donald Trump's inauguration, his administration began purging environmental security reports from the public record.

Billions of dollars in clean energy projects have been canceled since Donald Trump took office again.

If we stay on this administration’s course, future life-saving medicines may never be invented

Friends,