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How to Be Animal
An excerpt from Melanie Challenger’s new book: How to Be Animal: A New History of What it Means to be Human. Continue reading
Ecology & Science
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Wolf Rock: On Safety in Art and Science
AT THE RESEARCH STATION, I’m greeted by calls to safety, five pages of instructions provided by the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest, two of which are laminated. There are exhortations Continue reading
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The Nature of Plastics
Pull a synthetic thread, and you may unravel the universe. Continue reading
Lay of the Land
Hope for Fish Owls
The quest to find and save the world’s largest owl. Continue reading
Lay of the Land
In the Ghost Wood
THE DAY IS COLD and bright as I walk up the quiet road through small wet fields edged with hawthorn and gorse bushes. The sky is ice blue; behind me, the Continue reading