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06/14/2026

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The Amazon rainforest covers only a small percentage of Earth's surface.

Yet it helps regulate rainfall, stores billions of tons of carbon, and supports more plant and animal species than almost anywhere else on the planet.

Now Colombia has made a decision that could affect all of it.

The country has moved to prohibit new oil and mining projects throughout its Amazon region, protecting an area that covers roughly 42% of Colombia's territory, an expanse comparable in size to Sweden.

For decades, conservationists, scientists, and Indigenous communities have warned that continued deforestation and industrial development could push parts of the Amazon toward irreversible change.

Colombia's decision signals a different path.

One that prioritizes long-term protection over short-term extraction.

For Indigenous peoples who have lived in and cared for these forests for generations, the Amazon is far more than a collection of trees.

It is home.

It is culture.

It is history.

And it is a living system that sustains countless forms of life.

Supporters of the policy argue that protecting the forest means protecting waterways, wildlife, biodiversity, and the future of communities that depend on the Amazon every day.

Whether viewed through the lens of conservation, climate, or Indigenous stewardship, one thing is clear:

When a forest this important is protected, the impact reaches far beyond national borders.

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Do you think more countries should place permanent protections on their most important ecosystems?

06/07/2026

Be gentle with the quiet lives—
the moth at your window,
the frog beside the pond,
the caterpillar on the leaf,
the tiny bird drying its wings after rain.

The earth was made for them, too.

06/01/2026

Good advice

05/30/2026

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05/26/2026

The Shetland Islands sit closer to Bergen in Norway than to Edinburgh. For centuries they were Norse territory, only passing to Scotland in 1468, and their folklore reflects that dual inheritance.

The Wulver belongs to this landscape: a creature that feels neither entirely Scottish nor entirely Norse, shaped by the cold waters, peat hills, and isolated communities of the far north.

Jessie Saxby, a Shetland writer and folklorist, provided the only detailed account of it in Shetland Traditional Lore, published in 1933.

Her description is specific. The Wulver had the body of a man covered entirely in short brown hair, with the head of a wolf. It lived alone in a cave cut into a steep hillside.

It was not a transformed human and had no connection to the full moon. It was simply what it was, permanently and without variation: a wolf-headed figure that had apparently always existed in this form.

Its life was largely solitary and surprisingly domestic. It spent long hours fishing from a flat stone in deep water that local Shetlanders called the Wulver’s Stane, catching small fish called sillaks and piltaks with quiet patience.

It did not seek company. When families in the area fell into poverty or hunger, they would sometimes find fresh fish left on their windowsills.

No exchange was expected. The Wulver was also reported sitting in silent vigil outside the homes of the dying, and guiding travelers who had lost their way back toward the nearest village without being asked.