Artist and activist jackie sumell’s nonprofit, Freedom to Grow, takes a plant-powered approach to encourage radical change.

Civil Eats

As the world’s most ambitious oyster reef restoration nears completion, many millions of tiny mollusks are revitalizing America’s largest estuary.

Reasons to Be Cheerful

A groundbreaking research project has reimagined an entire unit with Scandinavian principles. Could it revolutionize U.S. prisons?

Philadelphia Magazine

Bullied by blight, the filbert has long failed to find a home on farms in the eastern U.S. After decades of research, its arrival is imminent.

Offrange

A champion of agroforestry, J. Russell Smith argued for the restoration of forests as key to sustainable agriculture in his seminal work Tree Crops.

JSTOR Daily

Emerging research shows the healing power of the hive for people grappling with stress and trauma.

Reasons to Be Cheerful

The Double Trellis Food Initiative fights hunger in America’s poorest large city—and gives young people a path to employment.

Civil Eats

Meet the community of people in Philadelphia forging a more dignified path for the dying.

Philadelphia Magazine

A new wave of experimental therapy is enlisting the psychedelic drug to help couples in distress heal.

Nautilus Magazine

Diving’s interwoven history of exploration and exploitation can trap even a decorated naturalist like so many fish in a net.

Distillations Magazine

As festivals celebrate the beloved native fruit, researchers explore its potential as a low-input, high-value crop for small farmers.

Civil Eats

“There’s no place to put it that is not going to be an unbearable, intolerable burden for the people who live near it.”

Environmental Health News