A new global boycott on Antarctic krill comes as major retailers withdraw krill products from their shelves to protect whales and other marine life.
Annie Dillard, who died this month at 81, transformed creative nonfiction by bringing the intensity, music and mysticism of poetry into prose.
Aging may not erase memories so much as blur their boundaries, causing the brain to file details from one experience under another.
Dog parks may offer something social media can’t: regular, low-stakes encounters with people unlike ourselves that can build empathy, tolerance and trust.
Twenty-five years after North Carolina struck a landmark deal with Smithfield Foods to clean up hog pollution, thousands of waste lagoons remain, and the people who helped craft the agreement explain how it went so badly wrong.
Ukraine will continue to face the daunting ecological cost of war long after combat ends.
You held the door for Alon Preiss, and he didn’t even say “Thank you.” What an asshole, right?
Tom Friedman thinks Zohran Mamdani could be a two-state bridge-builder, which makes about as much sense as amoebas playing the piano.
Raised on smartphones and social media, Gen Z is rediscovering film photography as a slower, more tangible path to creativity, community and life beyond the algorithm.
Trump boasts that America is “the hottest country anywhere in the world.” That’s just a weird thing to say.
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