RURRENABAQUE, Bolivia—The day the fire came, Dario Mamio Serato remembers that he could not breathe. The Amazon rainforest, known as the lungs of the Earth, was an inferno. Acrid smoke engulfed Mamio ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new guidebook aims to assist tribal nations across the United States in adopting legal frameworks that recognize the rights of nature. The ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) Most physicists believe that our universe began with a Big Bang. But how did the laws of nature – for example, the strength of gravity, the speed of light, and the strength ...

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field. Almost 10,000 galaxies. Looking back to when the universe was less than a billion years old. Source: Credit: NASA, ESA, and S. Beckwith (STScI) and the HUDF Team/Public ...

The concept of Rights of Nature and associated legal personhood paradigms has emerged as a transformative approach within environmental governance. Grounded in the premise that natural entities—rivers ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Environmental systems scientist at the University of Delaware. As the story goes, humanity’s “first contact” with an alien species ...

The effects of Earth's changing climate is driving up the number of legal suits related to environmental issues When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Among ongoing efforts to rethink the basic tenets of mainstream economics is a provocative new book by James Galbraith and Jing Chen. The authors sweep aside the intellectual structure of mainstream ...