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What It’s Like to Teach a<br> Magpie How to Fly

What It’s Like to Teach a
Magpie How to Fly

"We are not, I have to admit, necessarily raising this magpie in the most natural way."

By Charlie Gilmour | January 5, 2021

On the Early Women Pioneers of Trail Hiking

On the Early Women Pioneers of Trail Hiking

Gwenyth Loose on the Women Who Defied All Expectations

By Gwenyth Loose | January 4, 2021

Can We Bring Extinct Species Back? Should We?

Can We Bring Extinct Species Back? Should We?

Beth Shapiro on the Princeton University Press Ideas Podcast

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Robin Wall Kimmerer on the Gifts of Mother Earth

Robin Wall Kimmerer on the Gifts of Mother Earth

This Week From the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | December 28, 2020

Barry Lopez, whose landmark writings bore witness to the natural world, has died at 75.

Barry Lopez, whose landmark writings bore witness to the natural world, has died at 75.

By Corinne Segal | December 26, 2020

In a Time of Climate Crisis, How Can We Teach Children About Reciprocity?

In a Time of Climate Crisis, How Can We Teach Children About Reciprocity?

Writing a Children’s Novel with Peter Alexeyevich Kropotkin's Philosophies in Mind

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Jared Diamond on the Global Climate Crisis and the Case for Hope

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'Many Haws, Cold Toes.' And Other Arcane Ways of Saying It's Going to Snow a Lot

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We Should All Talk About the Weather Like This

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Larry Watson Talks Film Adaptations, the Modern Western, and Writerly Superstition

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What We Need: Anuradha Roy on Animals and Touch in Lockdown

What We Need: Anuradha Roy on Animals and Touch in Lockdown

"The longer we are denied what we took for granted, the more intensely we yearn for it."

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Botany and Revolution: How 18th-Century Naturalists Discouraged Ideas of Liberty

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