We know how to mourn other humans – but what about ecological grief?

In Iceland, people commemorated its first glacier formally declared lost to climate change.

Western culture needs more of these rituals

I remember interviewing a North Atlantic right whale expert years ago.

He was a practical, science-minded man.

But as we discussed a female whale that had lost her calf, he became visibly emotional.

She had lost the previous one, too, struck by a ship.

He seemed almost embarrassed by the depth of his feeling.

I wasn’t surprised.

I found his grief honorable.