Environment

The emphasis we place on different countries' responsibility for climate change may be doing more harm than good.

Is an animal's experience of pain the best (only?) metric by which to justify our treatment of them?

We need to interrogate the realities that demand we sacrifice our moral ideals and live with second-best solutions.

Life under lockdown prompts us to reflect on our relation to the natural world and the animals with which we cohabitate.

Generating clean energy with turbines seems to be in our interests, but how do we decide where we should we put them?

There is no obvious cure for the climate change skepticism that has hold over a significant chunk of the population.

The economic uncertainty that comes with turning away from fossil fuels, gives those in power pause.

Our inability (and unwillingness) to advocate for those people and entities that can't advocate for themselves spells doom for environmental protections.

Do the harms of industrial agriculture make the switch to lab-grown meat a moral necessity?

Does the very existence of lab-grown meat encourage us to continue to discount animal interests?

Lab-grown meat might lessen the instances of animal cruelty, but its invention also betrays an inability to keep our appetites in check.

How can we perceive the rights and interests of entities that exist beyond our human interest in them?

Under what conditions might a creature to become a rights-bearer? Who should get to decide?

Is the potential threat to human life and harm done to animals enough to overcome business interests and property rights?

Under what conditions should US agencies be allowed to interfere with the governance of tribal lands?

In what ways does our position in relation to domesticated animals place additional duties of care upon us?

What obligation do we have to restoring and preserving ecosystems and does that obligation extend to include predators?

Now is the perfect time to rethink our relationship with meat — the industry behind it and the baggage that comes with it.

The insincerity in Rio Tinto's public statements point to a basic misunderstanding regarding the appropriateness of blame and the demand of accountability.

As many police practices come under increasing scrutiny, we must consider the role of nonhuman animals in police forces.