Author Hippo Reads Staff

Happy summer solstice, Hippo readers! What better way to celebrate our slide into the sticky days of midsummer by cracking open a new book? Here's what our staff and contributors are currently reading—and...

Much has been written, and written well, about emotional labor.

For a long time, Tamar and Phil Koosed felt removed from the atrocities in Syria. They knew what was going on, but it just wasn't "their cause." And then they started seeing photos of children being...

Naomi Ages is the climate liability project lead at Greenpeace USA, out there fighting the good environmental fight day after day. Our editor Tori Telfer chatted with her about keeping the oil and gas...

Hippo is launching a new service! We've always been devoted to connecting research with the general public. Now, we're taking the next step in unlocking academia. We're inviting journalists to connect...

We here at Hippo have  some big news. We're in the process of moving our Reads magazine from a strict submission process to one that is open-source and community-based. In other words, members of our...

Today, the media is dominated by reports documenting the rising sea levels, increasing global carbon emissions, and our entrance into the “Anthropocene” era: a new geological epoch created by human...