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 ...

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 ...

Shivani Dharanipragada ‘25, is a computer science and economics major and was a 2022-23 environmental ethics fellow with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. As Earth’s climate ...