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...

Nurse Ana Kanellos, a volunteer, demonstrates home caregiving techniques during Wake’s September workshop at the Healing Center in New Orleans. Wake is a nonprofit organization providing education and resources for death care. Photo courtesy Christiana Botic/Verite...

Photo©MdMamun/123rf We all have those mornings where we wake up and can feel it immediately: the emotional fog has rolled in overnight. Whether it’s a lingering sense of anxiety, a heavy heart, or just a general feeling of being out of alignment with our higher...