Electrolyte drinks are getting their time in the limelight lately. We’re all familiar with the bright bottles lining store shelves and the ever-growing crop of electrolyte powders, tablets, and mixes.

The advent of artificial intelligence might be just the latest stage in a guiding biological process that has produced ever more complex, mutually dependent organisms over the history of life.

Specifically, physicists and philosophers tend to conflate what it means for something to exist and what it means for ...

“Rights of nature” is a movement aimed at advancing the understanding that ecosystems, wildlife and the Earth are living beings with inherent rights to exist, evolve and regenerate. Legal rights are ...

What is human nature? This is a question that has perplexed philosophers and psychologists throughout the ages. Are people essentially socially constructive and altruistic or are they destructive and ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Planting trees is a controversial way to fight climate change, but tech companies still rely on the strategy to ...

Very little of it has ever been farmed, large areas have never been logged, and it is home to threatened and almost archaic ...

As temperatures cool and snow begins to grace the northern Sierra Nevada’s ridges and peaks, the “Mountain Kids” of Plumas County carry a simple but transformative tool in their backpacks: a nature ...

If fashion wants to turn the tide on the climate crisis, it needs to address greenhouse gas emissions. But fashion tends to view these emissions in isolation from the industry’s environmental ...