>"Climate grief & anxiety are becoming more prevalent as the crisis worsens. Support groups, therapists & college professors are developing tools for grievers."

"Darwin was the first to see that all lifeforms, from worms to corals, transform the planet. What does that mean for us?"

Advanced technologies like A.I. are enabling scientists to learn that the world is full of intelligent creatures with sophisticated languages, like honeybees. What might they tell us?

> Untangling the competing priorities of climate adaptation, conservation and preserving communities in one of the American towns most at risk from global warming.

Very interesting essay on humans' complex relationship with nature, and how 'domestication' affects all natural life.

> Culture wars have now entered geopolitics.

> As nationalist movements in the West lay claim to their countries’ flags as their own symbols, it’s time to reconsider the uses of flags and their colonialist roots.

> Introducing Antikythera, a new program to examine the implications of an unfolding radical philosophical event: the emergence of planetary-scale computation.

>"Attaining and maintaining power lies at the heart of almost all animal societies. And it’s as devious as human politicking"

"The philosopher Jonathon Keats wants to incorporate the world’s plants and animals into our democratic systems."

> The noble but undervalued craft of maintenance could help preserve modernity’s finest achievements, from public transit systems to power grids, and serve as a useful _...Read More_

>"Simultaneous climate calamity brings the whole Earth into focus."

>"Technology can expand the short-term horizon of our Paleolithic survival instinct."

>"Fears about food security, farmers' rights and the environment have fueled a movement to “eat local.” But doing so could wind up being worse for the planet on the whole."

>"We need to expand our definition of intelligence to include non-human forms of cognition."