Rhode Island's first ever vegan festival is back! Join us on February 4th & 5th at WaterFire Arts Center in Providence for two days of eating and shopping from over 85 plant-based vegan restaurants, makers, artists, retailers, and more.
The will to survive can help a species hang on against what seems like insurmountable odds. However, every species on the planet may have met its match in the battle against plastic, since plastic is found in everything.
Scientists have reportedly achieved a major "breakthrough" in fusion energy technology, a potential game-changer in the critical pursuit of clean, reliable, and low-cost alternatives to fossil fuels and conventional nuclear power.
A biodiversity crisis is reducing the variety of life on Earth. One ambitious proposal is the international initiative known as 30x30: conserving and protecting at least 30% of Earth’s surface, on land and at sea, by 2030.
Indoor air pollution sounds scary and it certainly is something you should take seriously. Luckily, you have several options you can implement in your maintenance routines to improve the air quality and decrease your family’s health risks.
Contrary to popular myth woodpeckers do not kill trees by making holes or nesting cavities. They have a symbiotic relationship with trees, much the way butterflies have a symbiotic relationship with their host plants.
DIY gifts can help you cut costs, and they can be sentimental to the recipient. But best of all is that everyone knows DIY gifts come from the heart. Here are a few sustainable DIY gifts you can make to delight your recipients.
We, 50 organizations focused on food sovereignty and justice worldwide, want you to know there is no shortage of practical solutions and innovations by African farmers and organizations. We invite you to step back and learn from those on the ground.
I know it may be hard to convince you, but let me try: Don’t kill the next spider you see in your home. Why? Because spiders are an important part of nature and our indoor ecosystem – as well as being fellow organisms in their own right.
The World Wildlife Fund's Living Planet Index, which monitors 32,000 separate populations of species around the world, found that on average they were 69% smaller than they had been in 1970.
The United States is home to more than 4,000 native bees; worldwide, bees comprise about 20,000 known species. Often overlooked due to other more famous bees, getting to know your local native bee species is the first step towards saving them.
A growing number of scientists argue protecting and restoring nature can help societies recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and even help prevent future pandemics. Thriving ecosystems are vital for humans and the rest of nature.
The House of Tears Carvers traveled from the Pacific Northwest to the Clean Energy Justice Convergence in Pittsburgh, PA with a newly carved totem pole and a delegation of youth and elders from the Lummi, Tsleil-Waututh, and Navajo Nations.
As innocuous as it may seem, the common household air conditioner is actually a significant contributor to climate change!
Patagonia founder and "reluctant billionaire" Yvon Chouinard just raised the bar for corporate action on the fossil fuel-driven planetary emergency. "Instead of 'going public,' you could say we're 'going purpose.'
Meaningful connection with nature has a deep subliminal impact, and one most of us are missing, as we live more in urban environments and are less connected to the natural world.
Here are four trends seen online recently that have stood out as being especially misleading or potentially damaging to plants.
There are countless stories in the media and popular culture about our fraught relationship with plastic, focusing on our addiction and dependence. However, this way of framing the problem actually serves to perpetuate it. Plastics are plural.
We are blessed with numerous native species of pine, spruce, and fir in the Northeast, each of which produces a resin that has been used traditionally for hundreds of years in a diversity of ways.
Wasting energy is like taking your hard-earned cash and throwing it in the garbage. You may only feel the impact on your wallet once a month when your utility bills arrive, but it still dents your monthly budget.
After decades of delay and inaction, this is a momentous breakthrough for US federal climate action. It’s a breakthrough many of us have fought for and desperately hoped for, for far too long.
When wildfires burned across Northern California in October 2017, they left behind a toxic mess. In Sonoma County, fire remediation experts, local businesses, and ecological activists mobilized to cleanse the foundations of burned-out buildings with … mushrooms.
If everyone everywhere received a free electric vehicle at the same time – and owners were required to travel at really slow speeds across well-maintained roads – the world would sound different.
Despite their status as icons of biodiversity, koalas have been in steady decline for two decades. Yet the conservation status of this Australian native has only just changed from “threatened” to “endangered” in recent months.
"Few species evoke the awe and wonder that the migratory monarch butterfly commands," Sean T. O'Brien, president and CEO of NatureServe "While efforts to protect this species are encouraging, much is still needed to ensure its long-term survival."
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