The Amazon isn’t just the world’s greatest rainforest. She has been home to her original people for tens of thousands of years, who have persisted through centuries of colonial incursions…
Month: October 2025
How Halloween Scares Can Soothe Anxiety
I grew up scared of everything: death, the dark, my own face in the bathroom mirror. Eventually, I learned my bottomless fear belied several anxiety and anxiety-adjacent disorders that I’ve…
Better for Animals: The Evidence Behind Veg*n Pledges
Animal Charity Evaluators’ Better for Animals: Evidence-Based Insights for Effective Animal Advocacy resource is an ongoing project in which we distill key research on different animal advocacy interventions to help…
Why utility regulators need to do more than call ‘balls and strikes’
When Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont, a Democrat, first nominated Marissa Gillett to the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority in 2019, he praised the “ outsider’s perspective ” she would bring to…
California can’t get out of its own way on geothermal
In the early 2000s, the owners of the Mammoth Pacific geothermal station proposed expanding the plant into an area just east of California’s Yosemite National Park. The project boasted on…
The Nobel Prize’s Amazing Track Record in Immunology
By MIKE MAGEE With the announcement of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine last week, the American Association of Immunologists (AAI) took an understandable victory lap, stating: “This…
Leading scientists call for EPBC reforms to strengthen Great Barrier Reef protection
CANBERRA, Monday 27 October 2025 — More than 100 Australian scientists and researchers have called on the Labor Government to address deforestation in the new nature law reforms, warning that…
River of Life
Swan River at Sunset. Image: Fernando de Sousa on Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0 Nature is not only mother to us all, but our shared witness. Because truly, we are never alone when…
In a first, a data center is using a big battery to get online faster
CEOs of artificial-intelligence companies want to spend hundreds of billions of dollars building their energy-gobbling data centers, but that can’t happen without the necessary electricity supply. And they want to…