Robert Macfarlane’s new book asks a simple question that poses a profound challenge to environmental policy and the drive for economic growth.

Most rivers need some human help to stay clean and healthy and to flow freely. People have to fish out litter, block sewage, look out for invasive species and so on. This is obvious enough. But, as rivers…

Let’s train an army of nature protectors to speak for nature itself – not for what it can provide for humans.

The Scottish Association for Marine Science wants to better consider how its research could affect the ocean.

I’m a scholar, not an activist or an advocate. But now one of the most intimate, personal events of our lives had been turned into a political event by the state’s highest court.

If a business is run by an AI and it causes you harm, could you sue the AI?

A few marine mammals in apparent revolt pushed meme-makers into overdrive. But a scholar who thinks about justice and human-animal relations suggests something deeper is behind the schadenfreude.

Happy has lived alone in captivity for 14 years, but the New York Supreme Court recently denied a legal effort to rehome her.