World’s Oldest Known Bird Gives Birth to New Chick on Midway Atoll. Wisdom the mōlī, or Laysan albatross, is the oldest wild bird known to science at the age of at least 70. She is also, as of February 1, a new mother...
A team of distinguished attorneys with experience in telecommunications and tort litigation has sent a letter to several hundred public and private schools in the Northeast...
In a tireless, two-day effort, volunteers in New Zealand joined together to successfully refloat a pod of long-finned pilot whales stranded on the beach...
Holistic healthcare is once again threatened in Massachusetts. There are two bills in development at the State House that need your attention…
Taking a moment away from your work to stretch out your mind can be a great way to manage stress, and these NASA videos of our Sun, Moon, and Earth are perfect ways to do so…
We have turned a corner on climate change--a wrong turn--and it is happening more rapidly than we have predicted. Climate change is already disrupting society, ecosystems, and national economies. We have altered so much of our Earth that we now threaten our own survival…
For those unfamiliar with the Firefall, it is a bizarre and beautiful natural phenomenon that can only occur for two weeks out of the year. At sunset, the waterfall transforms from an icy shower to a glowing flame that appears to flow like lava …
About those wooly mittens that U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders wore to the presidential inauguration, sparking endless quirky memes across social media? They've helped to raise $1.8 million in the last five days for charitable organizations in Sanders' home state of Vermont, the independent senator announced Wednesday.
In a bid to bring the direct voices of the public to the table, the state of Washington has randomly selected state residents, representative of every congressional district, to its assembly on climate.
By focusing more on battling inequality, new research shows, the United States could significantly improve American life expectancy.
The harbor city of Dunedin in New Zealand regularly shuts down roads during the summer months to allow safe passage to wildlife…
Anti-fat bias and diet obsession hurt everyone, says Aubrey Gordon. Her new book looks at the roots of that harm and what we can do about it.
The annual challenge Veganuary announced Tuesday that it had received more than half a million sign-ups and counting…
Cool Block is a community organizing program that brings neighbors together to make their neighborhood more safe, resilient, healthy, and climate-friendly.
No matter where in the world we are, the complexion of our skin, the language we speak, the gods we worship, many of us have been experiencing the same fears, the same losses.
Created using mycelium, Adidas’ newest “leather” will join the brand's line of animal-free versions of its most iconic shoes, launched earlier this year as part of its sustainability initiative…
The Grocery Stories: Quantum physics kindness explains leap towards good in everyone’s demeanor and more good news…
If you, like myself and my friends, are wannabe minimalists, I’ve rounded up some of my favorite resources for you to explore.
A project ten years in the making, the Robert L.B. Tobin Land Bridge is now the largest completed wildlife crossing of its kind in the U.S…
“Solutions” to environmental problems that assume linear cause and effect and ignore the complexity of interwoven systems are not enough.
At the end of the month, when your budget is getting thinner, you may start to wonder where exactly all of your money went, especially if you didn’t have any splurges or out of the ordinary purchases.
A little pygmy possum has been found on Kangaroo Island for the first time since bushfire destroyed most of their habitat in last summer’s devastating blaze.
The idea that companies should focus on profit alone is now woefully inadequate given the massive problems we face as a society.
We’re at the end of 2020, and though some reports seem promising, there is still no vaccine. Yet I look at what’s going on in Japan, and I look at what’s going on in the United States—two starkly different realities on what normal looks like now.
Wintertime weather, holidays, and a pandemic lockdown can make routines difficult, but practicing mindfulness can offer a solution, and be done in very simple forms…
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