How Addressing Water Challenges Could Reshape Immigration
As climate change accelerates, water scarcity fuels unrest, reshapes rural economies, and pushes people to migrate.
Environment
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Our Ancestors Coped with the Collapse of Ocean Currents. Can We?
Climate history points to past disasters, but it also suggests strategies for survival.
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Ocean Empire
Introducing a new column breaking down seismic shifts in ocean policy and explaining why they matter.
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When USAID Stopped Helping Other Countries, Americans Lost Out, Too
Trust is far easier to break than it is to rebuild.
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India’s Biodiversity Paradox
Ironically, India’s commitment to protecting its farmers is compromising the country’s crop biodiversity.
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The Underbelly of Southeast Asia’s Palm Oil Empire
From colonial plantations to modern supply chains, palm oil’s rise has come at a hidden human and environmental cost.
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When Mother Nature Shuts You Down
The trick to waking up the sleeping metaphors of science is to ask how they affect policy and culture.
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Preserving Indigenous Water Rights Also Protects Salmon
Indigenous people in the U.S. and Canada have long sought to protect migratory animals, rushing waters, and expansive lands that recognize no borders.
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NAFTA Is in Tatters
A new NAFTA would privilege human mobility, biodiversity, and small-scale producers and consumers.
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The Trump Administration Is on a Quest to Mine Critical Minerals From the Ocean Floor
Lawmakers have a policy option to make the move less isolating for the U.S. and safer for the environment