A new study emphasizes that vegetable biodiversity is shrinking as vegetable species die out. Scientists emphasize that cultivating a wider array of vegetables could preserve species, develop crops re...

Redistribution of wealth won't cure what ails us.

There is a vision for a new kind of America coming into focus.

Tony Carruthers could be innocent – but without your intervention, Tennessee may execute him without considering the full evidence. Tony was convicted without physical evidence, based on testimony fr...

The invasive emerald ash borer, native to northeast Asia, has spread to 37 states over the past quarter century, killing nearly all of the ash trees it infests. But in Maine, a coalition of basketmakers, scientists and government officials are plotting a future for their trees.

In a Swiss forest lab, scientists tracked how beech and oak leaves cool themselves and pinpointed the moment heat and drought push them past their limits.

Experts are trying to determine nature’s financial contributions—and what could happen if they are lost.

Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’

The Trap of Blindly Defending Jerome Powell

Ahead of a presentation to the City Council by the city's Environmental Equity Investigation team, environmental advocates discussed Evanston’s long

School kids who ride in packs led by adults to school improve both their health and their grades, reduce traffic and pollution around schools and help cut climate-warming emissions.

The court invoked Ecuador’s rights of nature laws in halting a highway project to protect the Jambato harlequin toad, requiring the government to prove construction won’t drive the species to extincti...

The common kitchen appliance plays an outsized role in exposure to nitrogen dioxide, a toxic air pollutant.

A Bernie Democrat is within 2 points in a district Trump won by 22.

Tim Beatley will present the contours of an emerging vision of cities, Biophilic Cities, that at once emphasizes the health and ecological benefits of nature for humans, but also the inherent moral wo...

Dozens of wide-eyed preschool children helped plant trees last Tuesday on a rolling stretch of land near the North Shore Channel. One day that stretch

Caroline Fraser’s new book “Murderland” connects the dots between the rise of lead in the atmosphere from smelting and gasoline and the prevalence of serial killers during the 1970s.

Growing up in Evanston, Libby Shafer hated the city’s grass lawns. They are overly manicured, which is “wasteful” and takes up too much space and energy, she said.  Now, the third-year plant biology a...

I went to two No Kings events in East TN yesterday, this is what I saw and heard.

As you read this, I'm asking one question: Is this a plan you would put your name on?

These Democrats Will Create the Next Trump

Most Americans say political violence is never justified, but younger and more liberal Americans are more likely to say it can be.

With the Trump administration slamming the brakes on federal support for renewable energy, the future of solar power in this country is uncertain. But the

On a wall in my apartment hangs a prayer flag.

The MIT economist Peter Temin argues that economic inequality results in two distinct classes. And only one of them has any power.

A new peer-reviewed study examined the impact Indigenous territories have on human health in two categories of diseases, finding that municipalities located close to Indigenous lands with intact fores...

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If Americans are angry enough for authoritarianism, they're angry enough for supermajorities. It's time to start building a better America.

Adam Met of the indie-rock band AJR thinks fan-building strategies can amplify the climate movement’s reach and impact.

America is in a Political Revolution. A New Kind of Democrat Needs to Win It.

Democrats aren’t setting the stage for a movement. They’re letting Trump set the terms of the debate — again.

Tim Walz says we 'don't have the luxury' to fight ourselves. He's wrong. The Democrats who created Trump will create the next one too.

The Buddhist Coalition for Democracy supports democracy with wisdom and compassion in accord with the principles of right speech and action. Click to read Buddhist Coalition for Democracy, a Substack ...

Part 2 of my political fiction series shows how it actually happened: the leaders, the money, and the message all moving in the same direction for the first time.

A coalition of over 100 organizations is planning a protest in September during the U.N. General Assembly, linking climate action, migrant justice and gender equity.

A surge in high quality research and patent applications has cemented China’s dominance in the industry.