Photo courtesy Canva/Creative Commons Today, January 19, 2026, marks a day of celebration in the United States, in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., a human rights defender who, in 1968, paid the ultimate price for standing by his fight for social justice and against...

Photo courtesy Walk For Peace. No one could have predicted that a Dhutanga pilgrimage (ascetic wandering) by Buddhist monks would evolve into a global viral phenomenon, featured by major media outlets like CNN, AP, Fox News, and many others. Recently, wherever this...

Artwork©milkos/123rf Last year, I was speaking at a conference in San Francisco when a woman who’d read an article I had written confronted me in front of about 70 people. She was shouting, waving her finger in my face, spraying me with spittle, and accusing me of...

Photo©Aliaksandr Barysenka/123rf Dear EarthTalk: Is it true that you shouldn’t buy a used electric vehicle (EV) as the batteries only last 5-8 years and then require a costly replacement? — Paul Bresky, Boston, MA Many prospective EV buyers worry that the batteries in...

Artwork©jolly5xpander/123rf Something extraordinary is happening across the planet — sometimes quietly and subtly, and sometimes not so quiet or subtle. People are waking up. Not in the poetic sense, not in the motivational‑poster sense, but in a deeply personal and,...

Caption and credit for image: Camera-trap image of a flat-headed cat photographed in Thailand. Image courtesy of DNP/Panthera. 7 Hopeful Wildlife Sightings That Researchers Celebrated In 2025 by Shreya Dasgupta, Mongabay Colossal squid recorded for the first time in...