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Introducing the May/June 2015 Issue
On the very first Earth Day, forty-five years ago, the work of protecting plants, animals, and landscapes from harm was the work of restraint—a challenge we humans issued to ourselves to Continue reading
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Life on the Gulf Coast, Five Years After Deepwater Horizon
“The oil is not gone,” wrote Terry Tempest Williams in the November/December 2010 issue of Orion. “This story is not over.” Williams visited Louisiana’s Gulf coast in July 2010, where, roughly Continue reading
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“We Here Now, But Later We All Gone”
It’s hard to lose things—particularly things we’ve created, and especially things we love. But loss is natural, observes Julia Alvarez in the March/April issue of Orion. Her piece, which appears in Continue reading
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Introducing the March/April 2015 Issue
Late last year, as the new issue of Orion came together, President Obama announced that after nearly sixty years of closure, the United States would open relations with Cuba. To mark Continue reading
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The Tricky Business of Edward Abbey Fandom
The legendary writer, troublemaker, and lover of Western landscapes, Edward Abbey, is the subject of David Gessner’s piece in the Lay of the Land section of the January/February 2015 issue of Continue reading