I met J Alan Clark, Biologist and Associate Professor at Fordham University, at his office at Fordham’s Louis Calder Center, a research center tucked into the hills above Armonk, in Westchester, New York. To get access, you have to have a special parking pass and you get the sense that you’re going somewhere laymen don’t…

Ever looked up how rayon is made? Or why organic cotton is so much more expensive? Have you tried to figure out how just one item of clothing you own was made? If you have, you’ll appreciate just how complicated the journey from material – whether natural or human-made – to finished product is. I…

In June, 2015, a few months before the Paris Climate Agreement, Pope Francis published, “‘Laudato Si’ (On Care for Our Common Home),” the first papal encyclical to focus specifically on the environment.  To make sense of this letter (an encyclical is a papal letter that gets circulated, thus the “cyclical” part of the term), I…

Coyotes have a lot to teach us about who we are. They remind us that, like them, we are both predators and prey: that our lives are had at the expense of other lives, whether plant or animal, and that we too are a part of nature. To learn more about them, I talk with…