Indigenous scientists are hurrying to learn what they can about intact old-growth forests before they are gone. Biologist Teresa Ryan has seen a lot of clear-cuts and loaded logging trucks. But this ...

Taylor Young has never wanted to be a mom. From the time the now 27-year-old began dating, she experienced persistent anxiety around the thought of getting pregnant in Ohio, a Republican-controlled ...

Jose Martín Ovando suddenly halts in his tracks and crouches down along the steep forest path shrouded in mist, pulling out a magnifying glass from his small backpack to inspect a clump of deep green ...

When I was in middle school, at a majority-white public school in Montana, I was given an assignment to interview a grandparent about their childhood. The questions were designed to help us better ...

Caring is a tricky word for many women, as it brims with gendered expectations of labor, open availability, and mental load. Only six months later, Billy Baker’s Boston Globe article went viral, ...

White sands tower over the deep blue water of Lake Michigan at Sleeping Bear Dunes, or Ininwewi-gichigami to the Anishinaabe people who have always called this place home. The Anishinaabe story of how ...

“Imagining the impossible is what people have been doing in the struggle for liberation,” says academic and activist Ruthie Wilson Gilmore in a conversation about her latest book. For more than 30 ...

Historically, Indigenous and Black folks have been turned against each other by colonizers and enslavers. Now, communities are learning from one another and finding solidarity in efforts to reclaim ...

Abortion bans tend to disproportionately impact vulnerable populations in low-income, rural communities. Here’s how young people of color are fighting back. As states individually decide on which bans ...

As a child born and raised in middle-class white America, I never expected I would know much about emigrating to the United States. “Green card marriage” is a term I only learned from watching the ...

American society often expects people of color and immigrants of color, like me, to share stories of our traumas and how we overcame them as a rite of passage. We must stop having such expectations ...

The little city of Hazen, North Dakota, population 2,300, is the kind of town where farming and ranching families often have a second income from a job at a power plant or a coal mine. As a teenager, ...