To protect animals with highly developed cognitive and emotional capacities, we need to start by changing our point of view.

Hundreds of memorial statues stolen from Kenya and Tanzania have ended up in U.S. museums. Should the principle of informed consent be applied to (apparently) inanimate objects?

A company began diamond mining at an extraordinary site in South Africa with 2.3 million years of human history. Quick action by archaeologists has led to a court decision protecting the site.

A 2015 book offers an intimate account of undocumented migrants’ life-and-death struggles in the unforgiving desert of the U.S.-Mexico border.

A South African heritage site preserving 2.3 million years of human history has been gravely damaged by new mining activity.

U.S. policy is effectively hiding the suffering of undocumented migrants.

Anti-racism movements on U.S. campuses have raised a key question about language and freedom: Can we really say anything at any time?

Prized—and increasingly rare—bouquets of an enchanting flower from Brazil’s mountainous heartland pit collectors against conservationists.