Should we be passionate when we see a bison struggling in the icy water of a frozen lake? Should we mercy kill a baby elephant that was left behind by the herd because it had collapsed from exhaustion ...

In this essay, I consider three questions: is ecology "value-laden," what values are found in ecology, and what values should ecologists advocate (if any)? I conclude that ecology is laden with a ...

Sam Weiser, a 2021-22 Environmental Ethics Fellow, and Brian Green, director, technology ethics, both at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are their own. Environmental, Social, and ...

Science is a powerful way of knowing that has transformed the relationship between human society and the natural world. Drawn from the Latin word for knowledge, in the broadest sense, science means a ...