For more than four decades, Iranians have resisted through underground clubs, labor strikes, and other everyday acts of defiance. By now, people in the United States and around the world are ...

Indigenous scientists are hurrying to learn what they can about intact old-growth forests before they are gone.

Video games will not fix a broken world, but queering them can show players and non-players alike how to reimagine ours.

When Renee Lau, a special projects coordinator at the trans-led housing and wellness center Baltimore Safe Haven, transitioned at the age of 63, she lost everything. “My marriage fell apart,” she says ...

Celebrating the Tribe’s victory in their decades-long struggle to legally resume hunting gray whales.

In 1992, a Canadian ecologist named William Rees coined the term “ ecological footprint,” a measurement of how much any entity was impacting the planet’s ecology. A decade later, British Petroleum ...

Inside a maximum security prison in Argentina, Liberté offers more than education and recreation for incarcerated people—it offers lessons in solidarity.

Communities targeted by escalating right-wing violence are learning from their own histories how to keep each other safe.

High-profile, disruptive protests can lead to increased polarization—but often still yield increased public support for the protest’s goals, even if the tactics are criticized.

The long-term solution to the plastics problem is stopping the flow at its source. But even if we were to magically achieve that today, the world would still be awash in nearly a century’s worth of ...

New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard competed in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, one of two trans women to compete that year. Despite Hubbard’s disinterest in the media spotlight, her entry proved to be a ...

Smallholder farmers in Village M—a farming community south of the eastern border city of Mutare in Zimbabwe—have, for years, enjoyed bumper harvests of maize and other crops. However, the abundant ...