Every three days, someone is killed for defending nature. In 2025, watchdog group Global Witness documented 124 such deaths worldwide, a toll that is likely but a fraction of the total because repression and armed conflict make many killings impossible to document. The victims include Indigenous People, small-scale farmers, and community organizers who peacefully protect forests, farmlands, waterways, and natural ecosystems from harm. The perpetrators of environme

Dead elephant seals Do you know what's happening to plant and animal species that Indigenous peoples rely on in Amazonia? How about Siberian tigers in the taiga? Or the miniscule Macaya breast-spot frog of Haiti? Because there are so many consequential environmental and conservation issues, taking in the full scope of the challenges facing nature can feel overwhelming to me. But if we don't know about them, we won't care. And if we don't care, we aren't spurred to a

The undammed Klamath In a previous pos t on April 15, 2024, I shared a story about removal of four dams on California and Oregon's...

This linked 5-minute video tells a very big story -- so big that there has never been such a restoration of a river system and its salmon...

Yesterday, my wife Diana and I saw something unexpected. Large or small, unexpected observations of nature often prove the most...

November (I'm a bit late with this) was Native American Heritage Month. Among the many contributions native people make to the culture...

Most of us are aware of the rampant killing of American wildlife during the 1800s. This calamity reduced bison from an estimated 25-50...

Call it unprecedented, landmark, or just the best news since passage of the federal Inflation Reduction Act for fighting the climate...

It's been said that forests are the lungs of the planet. Saving the Earth's tropical and temperate forests is an essential element in...