A four-day work week, in the wealthy (and high carbon footprint) countries, would cut greenhouse gas emissions a lot.

College economics courses teach students that the economy has nothing to do with the ecosphere. Most of the students don't recognize the error in this.

This may not be coincidence. It may be the result of business influence on academia.

The secularist opposition candidate for mayor of Istanbul has won again, with a much bigger margin this time.

Individual people — whether great or merely grandiose — can change the course of history. Here is an example. And more.

Powerful impersonal forces are also at work in the UK's decision about leaving the EU. They constitute the pinball machine in which this loose cannonball bounces around. That does not imply the outcome is predictable.

The survival of the natural world upon which humanity depends hangs in the balance, according to the new chair of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.