This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Lesniak Institute for American Leadership at Kean University in Union, New Jersey—named for longtime New Jersey Senator Raymond (“Ray”) J. Lesniak—presented Tigers in America and its founder and president, Bill Nimmo,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Brent and Michelle Arp say that farming is in their blood. Brent’s 85-year-old father still farms on the more than 120-year-old farm where both he and Brent grew up. Michelle…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Bottles and bubbles: A good combination in more ways than one? While barriers for collecting plastic in rivers are becoming more commonplace, effervescence is an unlikely ally in this fight. But…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Farmers and gardeners use vermicomposting to create a nutrient-rich soil enhancer with a little help from earthworms, but new research indicates the practice could also help tackle a growing global…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Factory farms produce staggering amounts of manure and, in theory, there are strict regulations in place to keep it from contaminating nearby waterways. But in practice, many of these companies…
At a landfill on Majuli, which is said by many to be the world’s largest riverine island, a cluster of ungainly birds peck at garbage. Here, on the river Brahmaputra in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Breaking the industrial animal agriculture machine and reducing factory farming could be the most powerful, compassionate, and catalytic investment funders can make today. I was eight when I started fostering…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Coral Triangle, one of the planet’s most diverse reef regions, is under siege. The area, spanning the waters of Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Animal Charity Evaluators’ Better for Animals: Evidence-Based Insights for Effective Animal Advocacy resource is an ongoing project in which we distill key research on different animal advocacy interventions to help us evaluate…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Sabrina Servais, third-generation farmer and Assistant Herd Manager at her family’s Organic Valley dairy farm in Wisconsin, has a soundtrack to her life’s story of returning home and learning to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. TriplePundit turns 20 this year, in the middle of what the United Nations dubbed the Decade of Ecosystem Restoration. Ironically, researchers just learned the average person uses fewer nature-related words than ever…
With much of the world’s coral turning a ghostly white, UC Riverside scientists have launched a $1.1 million project to uncover how reefs regain life-giving algae after suffering from heat…