Among the many themes that can be discussed in the biblical story of Adam and Eve is the divorce between humans and nature: After being immersed in nature, humans were banished from the garden and began to experience nature as strange and foreign. Seen from this angle, the big question...
Paul Ehrlich was arguably the most influential ecological thinker of his generation. He was a towering human being and intellectual presence, driven by insatiable curiosity, a boundless reservoir of ideas, and an...
Uri Shanas, TiME’s founder, visited one of the threatened habitats awaiting your vote, Mount Sagyaan, and shares his experience. Let me try to describe the amazing time my wife, Irit, and I...
“Who are you?” said the Caterpillar.This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, “I—I hardly know, sir, just at present—at least I know who I was when...
The things we engage with in our media and the things we enjoy do shape our belief in what is possible in the future. Terra Nil is a nature-restoration video game. Upon...
PROTECTED AREAS & INDIGENOUS TERRITORIES EFFECTIVE AGAINST DEFORESTATION ACROSS AMAZON Protected areas and indigenous territories have been shown to be effective in reducing deforestation across the Amazon region. Here are some key...
“The forest is life,” Datu Lanelio T. Sangcoan told me over and over throughout our conversation. Datu represents the Higa-onon people, an Indigenous people in the Philippines whose sacred forest is...
There is more than meets the eye, looks can be deceiving, and ninety percent of the iceberg is underwater. This lesson was famously learned the hard way by RMS Titanic, which relied...
Can we quantify TiME’s contribution to the world? The response to this question is likely to follow one of two main approaches. Some would argue that even if we can put a...
Recycling, reusing, and the harms caused by littering were the first environmental issues I learned about in elementary school. We went on several field trips to recycling centers and participated in art...
Every now and again I find myself asking, or being asked, why biodiversity is so important. Why should we care whether some faraway, unphotogenic species of frog will live to see another...
John Mwacharo, Nature Kenya and Liat Radcliffe Ross, TiME In 2020, TiME members raised funds to protect land in a coastal region of Kenya that was the only nesting grounds of the...
One day, the god Carabí decided that he wanted to find water, so that he and his family could wash and drink. The water was hidden in a rock by a woman...
