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John Luther Adams’s latest premiere, “Vespers of the Blessed Earth,” is a tear-splattered departure from his usual style.

The opening movement in the piece about the decline of Planet Earth is succinct, covering 2 billion years of rock formation in less than 15 minutes

The composer has long been inspired by nature without sending an explicit political message. But his latest work takes on a newly urgent tone.

EIGHTEEN MONTHS BEFORE HE CROSSED the river for the final time, Barry Lopez traveled from his home on the banks of the McKenzie to see me in Portland,

In “The Devil’s Element,” journalist Dan Egan shows how an essential component of life has become a global menace.

This week, TWQ host Lauren Korn joins ‘A New Angle’ host Justin Angle in his podcast studio for a conversation with environmental philosopher Christopher Preston, author of ‘Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals.’

An award-winning journalist known for her work warning the world about so-called climate change was "gifted" 100,000 euros ($107,114) by Spain's second-largest bank for her work [...]

John Bellamy Foster takes readers back to Marx's understanding of the dialectics of nature and society. As Marx and Engels noted, humanity must not only…

Underscoring the need for humanity to overhaul its relationship with nature, 34% of plants species and 40% of animal species across the U.S. are at risk of extinction while 41% of U.S. ecosystems [...]

Scientists are calling it "a mass extinction of species across the planet."