I will become power-mad and lock my boyfriend inside forever!

‘“Notre Dame will come out of this experience enriched,” she says. “And so will we.”’

Lawrence Wright did it again; Jordan Peterson in a coma?; Myriam Gurba forced out of her job; Woody Allen canceled by his publisher’s employees; THE VIRUS; and more.

A headline-grabbing murder-for-hire plot helped expose the dark side of exotic animal ownership in the U.S. Is there now enough momentum to reform the industry?

We can all quarantine alone, together, in one big villa in the cloud.

“As medicine advances, we have more survivors. But those survivors carry trauma to their graves.”

New York midwife Elizabeth Catlin faces 95 individual felony counts at her upcoming trial. For what? For doing her job. Politics and patriarchy make the work of many credentialed, experienced midwives illegal — to the detriment of women and underserved communities.

“The thinking is that fleets of tireless, automated, uncrewed vehicles could one day criss-cross our waters, making maps where humans can’t or won’t.”

Just read it. And go wash your hands.

“The treasures of wild Florida — landscapes, waterways, flora, and fauna — will soon disappear without drastic efforts to save them.”

Where culinary bliss meets environmental peril, and how to solve America’s poke problem.

To understand this sprawling desert city, you have to understand its canals, whose routes Indigenous people dug as far back as A.D. 200.

One of the most technologically advanced countries in the world pays a high ecological price for its many culinary conveniences.

After enormous lobbying efforts, Monsanto’s GMO soybeans, treated with Roundup, became the country’s largest export, as cancer rates and other health issues skyrocketed.

The muted response to Todd Haynes’s “Dark Waters” is depressingly similar to our culture’s muted response to climate change

We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year. Here is the best in science and nature.

From Martin Luther to The Nutcracker, Germany’s original national nightmare was a tangled knot of writhing rats.

Every year, vehicles on Brazil’s ever-expending road network hit over 400 million Brazilian animals, causing series declines in some species — and Brazil isn’t the only country expanding its infrastructure.

“Each arm, with its own brain inside, moves completely independent of the others. So much so that arms have been known to steal food from each other.”

“The crowd seemed incredible—like a bag of Skittles had been scattered down the slope.”

If masculinity really is in crisis — and that’s a big if — we should at least be able to agree that it’s not women’s responsibility to fix it.

The life-long writer, teacher, and activist believed she could save a piece of land or a species, but after her brother took his life, she questioned her optimism and how to grieve for him and the planet.

Language has always changed, but the introduction of technology means it is adapting in ways we have never experienced before.

Search and rescue teams train for the worst conditions. But the worst conditions are getting worse. Are they ready for the next big disaster?

A three-part collaboration exposes the state of Texas’ willingness to violate federal law for the sake of the coal industry.

Knowing what we now know about global warming, is procreation irresponsible?

A family’s losses after Hurricane Sandy didn’t come in the usual order or with the usual speed.

Leo Schwartz finds out what lessons can be learned from the burned-out Oregon backcountry.

Fast food is killing the human world. Now it could be killing California gulls’ protected island habitat.

What does environmental justice look like in a landscape overrun by prisons? Where the incarcerated suffer from unusually polluted surroundings, and prisons are a toxin in their own right?