Advocacy

When Cleaning Up a River Does More Harm Than Good
When Hurricane Helene tore through Western North Carolina in September 2024, rivers became something almost unrecognizable.
By Briar Rose2 months ago in Earth
Will AI Take Over the World? Maybe Not. But It's Already Changing It.
We've all seen the movies. A superintelligent computer becomes self-aware. Robots overthrow humanity. Artificial intelligence spirals beyond our control while cities crumble beneath steel and smoke.
By Briar Rose2 months ago in Earth
So, Maybe You Don't Think AI is All That Bad...
THIS WAS WRITTEN BY A HUMAN WITH A HEARTBEAT, PLEASE DON’T BE OFFENDED, BUT I USED MY HANDS AND FINGERS AND BRAIN TO TYPE THIS OUT. Is that the disclaimer that we need nowadays?
By Stephen Kramer Avitabile3 months ago in Earth
How we made friends with a squirrel and met the infamous “squirrel whisperer”
Before we ever set foot in the Clifford E. Lee Nature Sanctuary, a strange prophecy appeared in the comments of a Reddit thread I had started. I was simply asking for birding advice, and trying to see what kind of things I may see and experience during my visit. A local user dropped a fascinating tip: "There are also squirrels at Clifford E. Lee that will eat nuts out of your hands. A guy was feeding them macadamia nuts last week and calling them by name…"
By C.L. Muileboom 3 months ago in Earth
The Silence We Never Notice Until It’s Too Late
As a child, I couldn’t name every bird that visited our backyard, identify native butterflies, or tell different tree species apart. I paid little attention to conservation policy or endangered species; to me, each season brought its own unique soundtrack.
By Jenna Deedy3 months ago in Earth
The accountant who decided to audit the planet: inside the climate work of Ambassador Dr. Mostafa Sherbiny
In 1989, Mostafa Sherbiny walked out of Cairo University's Faculty of Commerce with a degree in accounting and a habit that would define the rest of his career: he did not trust a claim until he could see the numbers behind it. Decades later, that same instinct sits at the center of his work on the climate. Ambassador Dr. Mostafa Sherbiny, the Egyptian sustainability and carbon footprint expert who became the first Egyptian appointed as a European Climate Pact Ambassador by the European Commission, has spent more than 35 years turning a bookkeeper's discipline into a method for holding governments and corporations to their environmental promises. Where others talk about ambition, he asks a harder question. Can you measure it, verify it, and put your name to the report? It is an unglamorous position in a field crowded with pledges, and it has made him one of the more credible voices on climate accountability to emerge from the Global South.
By Vipan K.3 months ago in Earth
Inside Zombie Deer Disease: Separating Fact from Fiction
If you've spent any time scrolling through wildlife headlines, you've probably seen the phrase "zombie deer disease." It sounds like something straight out of a horror movie—deer wandering aimlessly, drooling, appearing thin and disoriented.
By Briar Rose3 months ago in Earth
Europeans Need Air Conditioning. Their Own Dogma Traps Them.
Three years ago, London went through a 40‑degree summer. My friend Thomas lived in an old Victorian apartment in Kensington. The windows cracked open a sliver, and by eleven at night the indoor temperature still stuck at 34 degrees. He ordered a machine off Amazon. It arrived on the third day. He plugged it in, and for the first time in a week, his bedroom was fit for human sleep. The label said “Portable Air Cooler.” Not an air conditioner. Legally, it was not one.
By Jin3 months ago in Earth
If Montana Doesn't Stock Trout... Why Do We?
Close your eyes and picture fly fishing. What do you see? A crystal-clear river winding through pine-covered mountains. A drift boat floating beneath towering peaks. A trout rising to sip a mayfly from the surface.
By Briar Rose3 months ago in Earth
The Forests Were Never Meant to Stay Green Forever
The orange skies. The walls of smoke. The heartbreaking images of blackened forests and homes reduced to ash. Every summer, wildfires dominate the headlines across the United States. As of mid-July, millions of acres have already burned this year, with large fires stretching from California and Oregon to Colorado, Utah, Idaho, and beyond. Fire crews are spread thin as another intense wildfire season unfolds.
By Briar Rose3 months ago in Earth
What Changed to Utah's National Monuments?
On July 13, 2026, President Donald Trump signed presidential proclamations reducing the boundaries of two of Utah's most well-known national monuments: Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument . The changes reduced the combined protected area from more than 3.2 million acres to approximately 303,000 acres , removing federal national monument protections from nearly 3 million acres of public land.
By Briar Rose3 months ago in Earth
Before Devastating Consequences, You Can Make One Small Change
Before the clock finally strikes midnight, perhaps it's time to change. Isn't that the crux of the issues plaguing our world?
By Jason Morton4 months ago in Earth