Climate change raises existential questions—ones that, some argue, exist more comfortably in the realm of morality than science. So might the world’s ...

Did you know that when wolves howl, they harmonize with one another? Or that if a human imitates a howl, nearby wolves will modulate their voices and ...

In the English language, we reserve the pronouns of personhood for humans—”he,” “she,” “they”—and not for animals, plants, and landscapes. Yet in many...

Between globalization, technological advance, and ecological crisis, humans are living through a time of nearly unprecedented change. For centuries, m...

Memory of the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, thirty years ago, is still resonant—but its aftermath in the Ukrainian countryside continues to shape the...

The notion of private property—that land can be owned and put to private use—is deeply ingrained in contemporary society. Yet it’s an idea that’s bare...

The idea that we’ll soon run out of fossil fuel is both popular and frightening. But is it accurate? Orion editor Andrew Blechman speaks with Charles ...