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Lily Wong, a fellow in the School of Architecture spent the last eight months researching how plants hold significance in architecture, and she showcased this research through the symposium ‘Pet Plants’ on Wednesday.

Do Trees Have Mothers? is an excellent nature book inspired by the science of trees.

Lake Mary Jane, in central Florida, could be harmed by development. A first-of-its-kind lawsuit asks whether nature should have legal rights.

In 2006, a local government council in Pennsylvania concerned about sewage sludge dumping enacted the Western legal system’s first formal “rights of nature” instrument. Today, numerous countries have laws recognizing specific rights or even legal personhood for nature. As legal expert Alice Bleby explains, this new perspective arises from a wide range of contexts and plays out

Three years ago, in January 2019, residents of communities along Peru's Marañón River crammed into the sweltering meeting room that serves a...

Researchers have described a new legume tree from flowers embedded in several lumps of amber, recovered from deep within an amber mine in the mountains of the D

Researchers have described a new legume tree from flowers embedded in several lumps of amber, recovered from deep within an amber mine in the mountains of the D

On April 26, 2021, a wetland, two marshes, and two creeks sued a property developer in Orange County, Florida. The lawsuit, which sounds like the opening line of a bad joke

A timely list of climate change books that offer a new way of understanding and relating to nature

We are constantly being bombarded with dire warnings about the environmental and climate emergency. Act now, we are told, or face an unprecedented global catastrophe. But while the solutions proposed – solar panels, heat pumps, eating less meat – are no doubt necessary, they are for the mos...