Reason.com - Free Minds and Free Markets
Reason logo Reason logo
  • Home
  • Latest
  • Magazine
    • Current Issue
    • Archives
    • Subscribe
  • Video
  • Podcasts
    • All Shows
    • The Reason Roundtable
    • The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie
    • The Soho Forum Debates
  • Volokh
  • Newsletters
  • Donate
    • Donate Online
    • Ways To Give To Reason Foundation
    • Torchbearer Society
    • Planned Giving
  • Subscribe
    • Print/Digital Subscriptions
    • Gift Subscriptions

You are now logged in.

Forgot your password?

Create new account

Nature

topicsscience

Science

Humanity and Wild Nature Will Likely Both Be Flourishing in 2100

Human ingenuity is enabling us to get ever more goods and services from fewer and fewer resources.

Ronald Bailey | 12.22.2020 6:00 AM

iconphotosfive629438

Coronavirus

Let People Go Outside

Many public health experts say the benefits outweigh the risks.

Billy Binion | 5.5.2020 3:44 PM

CombineHarvesterDreamstime

Farming

It's Possible To Cut Cropland Use in Half and Produce the Same Amount of Food, Says New Study

Restoring up to 2.2 million square miles to nature

Ronald Bailey | 4.17.2020 3:04 PM

Environmentalism

Federal Court Invalidates "Lake Erie Bill of Rights"

Toledo's ballot initiative is "unconstitutionally vague and exceeds the power of municipal government in Ohio."

Jonathan H. Adler |The Volokh Conspiracy | 3.3.2020 7:29 AM

Looks tasty to me

Biotechnology

Is Farm-Free Food the Future?

The end of agriculture draws nigh.

Ronald Bailey | 1.16.2020 4:00 PM

Large image on homepages

Oceans

Widely Reported Alarming Ocean Warming Study Is Wrong

Skeptic of catastrophic climate change projections is right about significant errors in alarming new study.

Ronald Bailey | 11.14.2018 10:45 AM

Large image on homepages

Farming

High Yield Modern Farming Better for the Environment, Says Nature Study

Low yield organic farming uses up lots more land and harms biodiversity

Ronald Bailey | 9.20.2018 1:00 PM

Large image on homepages

Forests

Global Tree Cover Has Expanded More Than 7 Percent Since 1982

Satellite data finds that gains temperate and boreal forests offset reductions in tropical forests.

Ronald Bailey | 9.4.2018 1:00 PM

Large image on homepages

Nature

Humanity Isn't Destroying the Natural World. We're Changing It.

Welcome to Anthropocene Park.

Ronald Bailey | 2.25.2018 6:00 AM

Large image on homepages

Malthusianism

Is Degrowth the Only Way to Save the World?

Welcome to the latest gussied up version of Malthusian eco-pessimism!

Ronald Bailey | 2.16.2018 12:02 PM

Large image on homepages

Television

Need a Breather Before May Sweeps? Here, Have a Baby Elephant

Nature documentary highlights the rough childhoods of pachyderms.

Glenn Garvin | 4.22.2016 3:00 PM

Large image on homepages

Nature

Saving Earth's Biodiversity Through Markets and Technological Progress

A review of Half Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life by Edward O. Wilson

Ronald Bailey | 4.1.2016 1:30 PM

Large image on homepages

Climate Sensitivity

Global Warming Hiatus Is Real

The rate of temperature increase has been dramatically slower than predicted, says Nature Climate Change.

Ronald Bailey | 2.24.2016 2:01 PM

Large image on homepages

Environmentalism

Creating a Private Yellowstone: Environmental Entrepreneurship in Action

A model for how to voluntarily rewild North America.

Ronald Bailey | 12.28.2015 5:37 PM

Large image on homepages

Food Freedom

Maryland Man Fined $50 for Picking Berries in Park

A Maryland man received a $50 ticket for picking raspberries. The ticket charged him with "destroying/interfering with plants to wit: berries."

Baylen Linnekin | 8.29.2015 8:00 AM

Large image on homepages

Glenn Garvin TV Reviews

How Human Are Monkeys?

Sunday night's National Geographic documentary shows warfare, lying.

Glenn Garvin | 7.24.2015 3:00 PM

Large image on homepages

Sea Level

Sea Level Is Not Rising Faster Than Researchers Previously Thought

Despite alarming headlines to the contrary

Ronald Bailey | 1.15.2015 11:05 AM

Science

Stem Cell "Game Changing" Paper Retracted

Ronald Bailey | 7.2.2014 4:02 PM

Large image on homepages

Regulation

Missing the Forest

Regulations in the wild

J.D. Tuccille | 2.28.2014 7:00 AM

India

Forest Workers in India Claim They Have Killed the Tiger Responsible For Recent Deaths

Three women were killed in the last two weeks

Reason Staff | 1.22.2014 6:20 PM

Nature

Denali National Park Gets Google Street View Treatment

Only one road in the park, mostly unpaved

Reason Staff | 11.7.2013 8:10 AM

Nature

Circles on Frozen Pond a Mystery for Residents

Therefore aliens?

Reason Staff | 3.27.2013 7:30 PM

Nature

The Art of Managing Nature

A report from PERC's Reconciling Economics and Ecology Conference

Ronald Bailey | 3.1.2013 4:30 PM

Large image on homepages

Sports

Brickbat: I Think That I Shall Never See

Charles Oliver | 2.28.2013 6:00 AM

Nature

Nearly 650,000 Without Power in the Northeast

Thanks to blizzard

Reason Staff | 2.9.2013 9:18 AM

Nature

Northeast Bracing For Blizzard

Thousands of flights canceled

Reason Staff | 2.8.2013 7:08 AM

Economics

Postenvironmentalism and Technological Abundance

A review of Love Your Monsters, a collection of essays on a new kind of environmentalism.

Ronald Bailey | 1.4.2012 4:30 PM

  • About
  • Events
  • Staff
  • Jobs
  • Donate
  • Advertise
  • Subscribe
  • Contact
  • Media
  • Shop
  • Amazon

© 2020 Reason Foundation | Privacy Policy | Accessibility | Terms Of Use