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Long before modern science warned of global warming, the Founding Fathers believed human activity was reshaping the planet’s climate—and they set out to prove it.
By: Raphael Calel
Fish are sentient beings subjected to cruelty to maximize profits for the multibillion-dollar industry.
By: Vicky Bond
Photographs, storytelling, poetry, and well-documented research unveil the immense suffering, ecological devastation, worker exploitation, and economic injustice caused by the animal agricultural industry.
Since you know your community best, you are in the best position to become a local environmental leader.
By: Sam Davis
In 1890, American historian Henry Adams traveled to the South Pacific and worked with Tahiti’s royal family to create a unique blend of memoir, ethnography, and colonial history that recorded the island’s culture and past.
By: Ray Davis
In Georgian Britain, Edward Jenner’s smallpox vaccine sparked panic over “beastly” side effects, exposing how new science can collide with old beliefs.
By: Erica X Eisen
Wilde the oscar fish spent 12 agonizing years in a tiny, toxic tank at a car dealership—a cruel fate shared by countless tropical fish sold as “decorations.”
By: Cameron Edwards
Genetically engineered eucalyptus will worsen a bad situation in Brazil.
By: Orin Langelle and Steve Taylor
The Fireweed Collective offers online and in-person healing.
By: Damon Orion
When global leaders won’t save our food system, cities take the lead.
