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#animal-sentience
Writing
fromPsychology Today
15 hours ago

Reimagining Animal Sentience: A Novel View of Animal Minds

Animal sentience is real, and poetry can transform our understanding and treatment of animals as conscious beings.
#climate-change
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
13 hours ago

A New Narrative for Planetary Health in the Hybrid Era

Perceiving crises as external leads to helplessness and disengagement, while recognizing agency fosters positive outcomes and behavior change.
fromNature
2 days ago
Environment

'Yes, we can': a blueprint for a clean economy and healthy society

A new 'clean' economy focused on sustainability can lead to a more efficient and prosperous society.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
13 hours ago

A New Narrative for Planetary Health in the Hybrid Era

Perceiving crises as external leads to helplessness and disengagement, while recognizing agency fosters positive outcomes and behavior change.
Environment
fromNature
2 days ago

'Yes, we can': a blueprint for a clean economy and healthy society

A new 'clean' economy focused on sustainability can lead to a more efficient and prosperous society.
Portland food
fromKqed
4 days ago

Indigenous Communities Reclaim Ancestral Lands and Waters | KQED

The Potter Valley Pomo tribe creates a community forest for youth camps and events, marking a significant cultural initiative in California.
Pets
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 days ago

Healthy hedgehogs are best left in the wild | Letters

Hedgehogs are wild animals that should not be kept as pets; they thrive best in their natural habitat.
Dining
fromMail Online
6 days ago

Woke scientists want photos of ANIMALS on menus to put diners off meat

Adding photos of animals to menus increases the likelihood of diners choosing vegetarian options over meat dishes.
Environment
fromEarth911
4 days ago

Earth911 Inspiration: Show Up for Planet Earth

Make Earth Day 2026 a pivotal response to environmental damage from recent U.S. policy reversals.
Media industry
fromwww.independent.co.uk
1 week ago

Debate erupts over wolves in captivity after animal park euthanises entire pack

The Independent emphasizes the importance of accessible journalism and the need for on-ground reporting in critical societal issues.
Non-profit organizations
fromNature
2 weeks ago

'Continuity over novelty': why environmental science needs to rethink its focus

The closure of forest-service research offices threatens long-term ecological research and institutional memory in the US.
#human-animal-relationship
Philosophy
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

'Animate': How Nonhuman and Human Minds Are Inherently Linked

Humans share traits with animals and have become disconnected, wrongly believing in our superiority over them.
Philosophy
fromNature
2 weeks ago

How the idea of human superiority over nature was invented

Humans are part of nature, not separate from it, and this relationship shapes our understanding of ourselves and other animals.
Pets
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Dogs, Cats, and Other Nonhumans Are Not 'Just Animals'

A new book challenges speciesist narratives and promotes deeper respect for animals as sentient beings with powerful social bonds.
Psychology
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

We can't all be heroes, but as a species we can become more altruistic with a bit of practice | Jackie Bailey

Human society has become kinder over time, with a decline in violence and an innate tendency towards altruism and care for others.
Environment
fromNature
1 week ago

How buildings and cities can be aligned with life

Buildings currently harm the environment, but regenerative design can restore ecological systems and reduce waste through nature-inspired strategies.
Online Community Development
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

The Power of Human-Animal Relationships: 'Unleashing the Bond'

Human-animal relationships significantly influence physical health, emotional well-being, and community resilience through scientifically measurable mechanisms beyond sentimental value.
Pets
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Wily coyote? Urban canines take more risks compared with rural ones, study finds

Urban coyotes are less afraid of new stimuli and take more risks compared to rural coyotes, according to a study across multiple US sites.
Design
fromArchDaily
3 weeks ago

Rethinking Architecture at the Scale of Planetary Systems

Contemporary architecture operates within interconnected technological systems—energy networks, data infrastructures, and global logistics—that fundamentally shape what can be built, its affordability, performance, and waste production.
fromOpen Culture
3 weeks ago

In Her Final Reflections, Jane Goodall Issues a Warning: "Without Hope, We Fall Into Apathy"

Somebody sent to this world to try to give people hope in dark times, because without hope, we fall into apathy and do nothing, and in the dark times that we are living in now, if people don't have hope, we're doomed. How can we bring little children into this dark world we've created and let them be surrounded by people who've given up?
Writing
fromMail Online
1 week ago

Scientists explain why entire pack of wolves needed to be euthanised

The charity claims long-term separation was not a viable solution, as wolves' welfare is closely tied to living within a stable pack structure, and isolation can create further welfare concerns.
Pets
fromNature
4 weeks ago

Prevent pandemics through One Health commitments

Risks of outbreaks with pandemic potential rise with increasing land-use change, biodiversity loss and climate change. The Pandemic Agreement adopted by the World Health Assembly in 2025 marks a historic shift that establishes the One Health approach as a legally binding obligation for pandemic prevention.
Public health
#biodiversity
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago
Environment

Do Multinational Corporations Care About Biodiversity?

Investors increasingly favor certified carbon offsets that enhance biodiversity because biodiversity is simple, measurable, and aligns with investor psychology.
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago
Environment

Global economy needs nature to thrive

Business models prioritizing growth over nature drive biodiversity loss and risk human extinction unless transformed to integrate environmental stewardship.
Environment
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

How protecting nature could make the world safer

Biodiversity loss is increasingly recognized as a national security threat linked to political stability and global resource competition.
Intellectual property law
fromNextgov.com
4 weeks ago

Anthropic sues over a dozen federal agencies and government leaders

Anthropic sued federal agencies and leaders for allegedly retaliating against the company for refusing to modify Claude's terms of use for Department of Defense surveillance and autonomous weapons applications.
fromHigh Country News
1 month ago

Coyotes and cougars and rats, oh my! - High Country News

An unnamed tourist saw it and told Aidan Moore, who works for Alcatraz City Cruises. Moore told SFGATE that he was initially skeptical, but the guest's iPhone footage left little room for doubt. The video shows, not a sea lion or an otter, but an actual Canis latrans, doggedly dogpaddling, then clambering out of the water, noticeably shaky and struggling to settle tired paws on the craggy rocks.
California
Environment
fromTruthout
3 weeks ago

Growing Presence of AI Data Centers Prompts Debate on Native Lands

AI data center expansion creates environmental and cultural challenges for Native American tribes, sparking debates over tribal digital sovereignty and regulatory needs for data infrastructure control.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Animal Consciousness: Behavioral Flexibility is Ubiquitous

Consciousness exists across diverse species including insects, demonstrating that humans are not uniquely conscious and behavioral flexibility indicates sentience in nonhuman animals.
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 month ago

How a teen's AI model could help stop poaching in rainforests

Both species are under threat. But while African savanna elephants are endangered, forest elephants are critically endangered. They're also highly elusive. Living in dense tropical rainforests in central Africa and parts of West Africa they're very hard to find and study.
Science
Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 weeks ago

Countries can rewild borders to deter invasions, says EU environment chief

Rewilding land borders with natural vegetation and wetlands deters invasion while enhancing biodiversity and national security through environmental restoration.
Philosophy
fromThe Conversation
1 month ago

The cost of casting animals as heroes and villains in conservation science

Hero-villain narratives in ecology oversimplify complex ecological stories and inappropriately impose human moral frameworks onto non-moral natural processes and species.
fromNature
1 month ago

The age of animal experiments is waning. Where will science go next?

Last November, the UK government announced a bold plan to phase out animal testing in some areas of research. Animal tests for skin irritation are scheduled for elimination this year, and some studies on dogs should be slashed by 2030. The long-term vision is 'a world where the use of animals in science is eliminated in all but exceptional circumstances'.
Science
Environment
fromTruthout
4 weeks ago

Environmental Activists Say the FBI May Be Investigating Them

FBI counterterror investigators are scrutinizing nonviolent climate activist groups like Extinction Rebellion NYC, raising concerns about federal law enforcement targeting constitutionally protected protest and free speech activities.
Philosophy
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Neighbors, It's Time to Make a Stand

Universal conviction in one's own righteousness divides humanity, while accelerating evolutionary mismatch from our technology-created world remains our shared existential problem.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds

Climate breakdown is occurring more rapidly with the heating rate almost doubling, according to research that excludes the effect of natural factors behind the latest scorching temperatures. It found global heating accelerated from a steady rate of less than 0.2C per decade between 1970 and 2015 to about 0.35C per decade over the past 10 years.
Environment
Social justice
fromwww.nature.com
2 months ago

A framework for addressing racial and related inequities in conservation

Conservation often violates Indigenous rights, perpetuates racial injustice and violence, and requires community-based standards, anti-racist reforms, and accountability measures.
Yoga
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Yoga: The Essence of Animal Ethics, Kinship, and Rewilding

Yoga's ethical teachings can reorient human-animal relationships, fostering kinship and devotional practices that extend care to nonhuman beings and the environment.
Environment
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

How protecting nature could make the world safer

Ecosystem collapse poses direct national security threats through food insecurity, resource scarcity, and geopolitical instability across continents.
Agriculture
fromModern Farmer
2 months ago

5 Agri-Environmental Strategies that Prevent Species Loss

Implementing agri-environmental strategies like prairie strips and reduced tillage increases biodiversity, soil health, pollination, and natural pest control, benefiting farm productivity.
LGBT
fromAdvocate.com
2 months ago

How LGBTQ+ people are defending Earth in the climate crisis

Nature provides SJ Joslin refuge free of gender or sexual discrimination, guiding their environmental work despite firing after hanging a transgender Pride flag.
#kindness
fromLGBTQ Nation
1 month ago

Political pragmatism is not a moral failing. It may be the only thing that can save us. - LGBTQ Nation

He is not worthy of the presidency. He takes bribes blatantly. And now he's being a racist, blatantly. They were supposed to deport the dangerous criminals. They were not supposed to go after small children, storm schools, bring terror upon, you know, the little kids and the women and children, not just the immigrants in the school. All the children are scared.
US politics
#environmental-justice
fromNature
1 month ago
Social justice

My professor said 'Black people are not interested in the environment'. I set out to prove him wrong

fromNature
1 month ago
Social justice

My professor said 'Black people are not interested in the environment'. I set out to prove him wrong

#animal-rights
History
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

The Commons: The Unfinished Revolution

The American Revolution reshaped political power but preserved many social hierarchies, and inclusive historical portrayals recognize marginalized contributors.
Food & drink
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months ago

The world against vegans: can the movement withstand the reactionary wave and its own crisis of faith?

Veganism faces a modest decline with qualitative shifts: some businesses and high-profile individuals reintroducing animal products while overall veggie numbers remain largely unchanged.
Public health
fromState of the Planet
1 month ago

Leveraging Risk Communications to Bridge Tribal Voices

Culturally grounded, partnership-based, multi-directional disaster communication systems can reduce Tribal Nations' household, livestock and land disruptions from extreme weather.
Philosophy
fromApaonline
2 months ago

Environmental Bioethics and the Problem of Interdependence

Environmental bioethics reframes ethical focus toward interdependence, bridging individual-focused clinical bioethics and community-focused public health ethics across approach, scale, and scope.
US politics
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

Put Humans in Charge Again

Strong executive authority and flexible decision-making enable rapid, large-scale public works, mass hiring, and fast crisis responses when bureaucratic processes are bypassed.
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

How Can We Change the World?

There's a myth in our society that real change requires force, strength, and domination. We celebrate athletes, CEOs, and politicians who crush their opponents. But history tells a different story. Lasting social change has often been triggered by humble people whose weapons were passion, principle, and an unwavering commitment to justice and the truth - not the truth we see on TV or read in print media, but rather the truth that we feel deep inside ourselves.
Social justice
Environment
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Opinion: AI is destroying our planet. We must act to check its growth and save ourselves.

AI's environmental impact is severe, with 2025 freshwater consumption exceeding global bottled water use and projected energy demands by 2034 matching India's entire consumption, requiring immediate action.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Monkey Matchmaking and Why It Matters

Personality similarity in pair-bonded animals improves compatibility and well-being, suggesting matching personalities could enhance welfare of captive pair-bonded primates.
Science
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

5 unlikely animal friendships that prove connection has no species barrier - Silicon Canals

Animals form deep, unexpected interspecies bonds that transcend instinct, demonstrating that genuine connection can override species boundaries and learned categories.
US politics
fromFuturism
2 months ago

Man Trains Crows to Attack MAGA Hats

A man trained crows to remove and attack red MAGA hats by baiting them with food, demonstrating crow intelligence and creative anti-MAGA protest tactics.
Psychology
fromLady Freethinker
2 months ago

The Link Between Animal Cruelty and Human Violence

Animal cruelty commonly co-occurs with interpersonal violence and serves as a strong early warning sign indicating elevated risk to both animals and people.
fromMindful
1 month ago

Can Compassion Save the Planet?

When British author Karen Armstrong won the TED prize in 2008, she used the money to convene a group of religious thinkers from a wide range of faiths to craft an updated version of the Golden Rule for the 21st century. What emerged was the Charter for Compassion, which calls on people around the world "to work tirelessly to alleviate the suffering of our fellow creatures, to dethrone ourselves from the center of our world and put another there, and to honor the inviolable sanctity of every single human being, treating everybody, without exception, with absolute justice, equity and respect."
Philosophy
Environment
frombigthink.com
1 month ago

Widening the frame: Indigenous land rights and the future of climate policy

Indigenous land rights are essential to climate action, with Indigenous representatives at COP30 demanding recognition of their ancestral land ownership and management authority.
fromThe Conversation
2 months ago

Some companies claim they can 'resurrect' species. Does that make people more comfortable with extinction?

Less than a year ago, United States company Colossal Biosciences announced it had "resurrected" the dire wolf, a megafauna-hunting wolf species that had been extinct for 10,000 years. Within two days of Colossal's announcement, the Interior Secretary of the US, Doug Burgum, used the idea of resurrection to justify weakening environmental protection laws: "pick your favourite species and call up Colossal". His reasoning appeared to confirm critics' fears about de-extinction technology. If we can bring any species back, why protect them to begin with?
Philosophy
fromLGBTQ Nation
2 months ago

Study finds widespread same-sex behavior among primates & could help explain why nature is so gay - LGBTQ Nation

The study's authors researched 96 peer-reviewed studies documenting SSB to compile one of the most comprehensive datasets for primates to date. The study found that SSB are a "persistent and integral component of primate social [practices]." In fact, the prevalence of SSB across a variety of closely related primate species - and over several lines of descendants - "indicates a deep evolutionary root or multiple independent evolutionary origins," the study's authors wrote.
Science
Philosophy
fromWarpweftandway
2 months ago

New Book: Fuyarchuk, Linguistic Quandary of Environmental Hermeneutics

Humans must reconceive existence as 'being-in-nature' through empathetic bodily affinity, environmental receptivity, and imitation to interpret nature's language.
Science
fromSilicon Canals
2 months ago

9 natural disaster warning signs animals display before humans notice anything wrong - Silicon Canals

Animals often detect imminent natural disasters through subtle environmental cues and flee before humans.
Environment
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Rewilding Rejects the We're-So-Special Exceptionalism

Rewilding requires rehabilitating human hearts, overcoming self-centeredness, and treating nature with compassion so ecosystems and nonhuman lives can flourish.
Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

We don't need to control pigeons just the people who feed them | Letters

Controlling public feeding is the most humane and effective method to reduce urban feral pigeon populations; deterrents fail if food remains available.
#biodiversity-loss
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

The business of saving nature

The world spends 30 times more money destroying nature than protecting it. That's according to a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) that exposes a massive gulf between so-called "harmful investments" and financing that promotes nature preservation. The global environment agency's latest "State of Finance for Nature" (SNF) report is calling to phase out the US$7.3 trillion (6.2 trillion) in global investments that damage nature including into high-emissions energy infrastructure and manufacturing, for example.
Environment
Environment
fromSocial Media Explorer
1 month ago

Entorno Law and the Role of Public Interest Law in Protecting Communities and the Environment - Social Media Explorer

Public interest law ensures accountability and enforces environmental and consumer protections to safeguard public health, community welfare, and natural resources while promoting sustainability and fairness.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

They pushed so many lies about recycling': the fight to stop big oil pumping billions more into plastics

Then she read an article in this newspaper, just over eight years ago, and discovered that fossil fuel companies had ploughed more than $180bn (130bn) into plastic plants in the US since 2010. It was a kick in the teeth, says Gardiner. You're telling me that while I am beating myself up because I forgot to bring my water bottle, all these huge oil companies are pouring billions She looks appalled. It was just such a shock.
Environment
fromThe Nation
2 months ago

Climate Hushers Need to Get Real

"Let's be realistic." That's the advice coming from a growing number of voices in climate circles in the United States. In October, billionaire Bill Gates argued that a global temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius is unavoidable and not a " super bad outcome"-a view unlikely to be shared by the millions of people whose homes would be destroyed by the resulting killer storms and rising seas.
Environment
Environment
fromEarth911
1 month ago

Earth911 Inspiration: No Louder Voice?

Prioritize planetary care and a unifying universal value that emphasizes human dignity within a restored, regenerating nature over divisive identity politics.
Environment
fromHigh Country News
2 months ago

Americans generally like wolves except when reminded of politics - High Country News

Public opinion toward gray wolves is broadly positive and growing, despite amplified perceptions of deep conflict driven by media and political narratives.
fromNature
2 months ago

I know science can't fix the world - here's why I do it anyway

His message is clear: our world is built on abundant energy, around 80% of which has come from fossil fuels over the past 50 years. Because supplies are limited, energy consumption will peak in decades - sooner if humans attempt to limit climate change. To keep global warming below 1.5 °C by 2100, the use of fossil fuels must fall by 5-8% each year - a pace that is too fast for low-carbon energy to keep up with.
Environment
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