First published in Unearthed I first met Sheila in 2024 at a book club event in Ithaca—an intimate, monthly gathering focused on...

Back for round 2! In February, Uri and I had attended a Winter Foraging workshop, and we loved it so much that we immediately signed up...

Dr. Gemma Clucas travels to the most remote places on Earth to study the health of seabirds and the ocean via an unexpected medium: poop!

An interview with Megan Guinn, snow scientist who researches glaciers, snow melt, and avalanches and how they are affected by climate change

An overview of what we learned during our winter foraging workshop in New York

My experience with nature journaling has, so far, been minimal. I dove into it more heavily in 2023 during my Forest Ecology class where...

If you pause to think about it, what was your last encounter with an insect or other arthropod? Did you walk past a bee that was...

A soft, hazy beam of sunlight funneled through the tree branches, forming speckles of sunspots on the forest floor where the waiting...

Earth is very tiny. As Carl Sagan eloquently described, it is but "a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam". While we may be an...

I wouldn't say we live on a beautiful street. It's pretty active with morning traffic, some of the houses are getting redone, there are...

Being a grad student at an environmental school, I have a lot more exposure to climate change-related classes, and since my work focuses...

I was pretty nervous about Plastic-Free July (PFJ). So many products in our lives contained plastic, and it was going to take a lot of...

Like all social media, Instagram displays photos and videos of people living their best life, traveling the world, succeeding, and simply...

GMOs are short for genetically modified organisms because some aspect of the product's genome has been modified. To clarify, a...

You might not have ever considered that having a plastic-free lifestyle was a real thing or something even worth doing. Plastic is...