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Part Bear, Part Bird, Part Monkey, Part Lizard: On the Deep Weirdness of Beavers

Part Bear, Part Bird, Part Monkey, Part Lizard: On the Deep Weirdness of Beavers

Leila Philip on the Evolutionary Puzzles and Unfathomable Intelligence of the Rodent-Engineers

By Leila Philip | December 8, 2022

The Most Disturbing of All Human Sins? How We Live With Other Creatures

The Most Disturbing of All Human Sins? How We Live With Other Creatures

Esther Woolfson in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | December 7, 2022

Scientific, Sexual and Sentimental: What Frida Kahlo Saw in the Orchid

Scientific, Sexual and Sentimental: What Frida Kahlo Saw in the Orchid

Erica Hannickel on an Artist's Plant-Filled Life

By Erica Hannickel | December 6, 2022

The Politics of Independence: Living Off-Grid in the Colorado Foothills

The Politics of Independence: Living Off-Grid in the Colorado Foothills

Ted Conover Gets to Know the Homesteaders of the San Luis Valley

By Ted Conover | December 1, 2022

Bad Trips and Borderlands: Take a Literary Tour of the New American West

Bad Trips and Borderlands: Take a Literary Tour of the New American West

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How Dogs Explore the World Through Smell

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By Jules Howard | November 28, 2022

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By Emergence Magazine | November 28, 2022

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An Icy Truth: How We’ve Used Cold to Transform Humanity and Destroy the Environment

By Keen On | November 28, 2022

Why Both Government and Private Corporations Have Essential Roles in Confronting Climate Change

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“Polluters Will Be Looked Upon as Swine.” On Kurt Vonnegut’s Environmental Activism

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Christina Jarvis on the Literary Icon’s Advocacy for Planetary Citizenship

By Christina Jarvis | November 17, 2022

The Problem with Calling Nature “Wild”

The Problem with Calling Nature “Wild”

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By Phillip Vannini and April Vannini | November 16, 2022

Finding the Mother Tree: An Interview with Suzanne Simard

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Dorthe Nors Spends the Shortest Night of the Year on Denmark’s North Sea Coast

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By Dorthe Nors | November 14, 2022

Lessons on Community From a Father Reading Dostoyevsky

Lessons on Community From a Father Reading Dostoyevsky

Chris Dombrowski on Service and Care in Missoula, Montana

By Chris Dombrowski | November 7, 2022

Ecosystem in Decline: Finding the Spirit of the Dalmatian Wetlands

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