Adopted by almost 200 parties at the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference, the Paris Agreement captures international ambitions for cooperative climate action.

The groundwork for the field of planetary health was laid by a range of disciplines and movements, including medicine, ecology, health, and feminism.

A policy framework proposal seeks to elevate the needs and rights of all living organisms in the environment.

One scholar chronicles how communities have banded together to help each other with abortion care even when it’s against the law.

“If someone is from the Amazon,” says Evgenia Fotiou, an anthropologist who studies Western ayahuasca usage, “they bring some legitimacy” to an ayahuasca ritual.

Waterless toilets battle the global sanitation crisis.

Climate scientists tend to be optimistic and have faith that humanity can engineer our way out of the climate change we’ve created.