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A License to Be Human
The starting point might sound familiar: a favorite hillside bulldozed, an ancient grove of redwood trees felled, a loved one killed on the streets, a loved one dying of lung cancer, Continue reading
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The starting point might sound familiar: a favorite hillside bulldozed, an ancient grove of redwood trees felled, a loved one killed on the streets, a loved one dying of lung cancer, Continue reading
Note: beneath Charles Bowden’s article you’ll find an article by photographer Julián Cardona. CHARLES BOWDEN | Tucson, Arizona AT NOON THE AIR BURNS — strike a match and toss it into Continue reading
(This essay was a finalist for a 2013 National Magazine Award in the Essay category.) THE PROBLEM WITH environmentalists, Lynn Margulis used to say, is that they think conservation has something Continue reading
Part One: The Diagnosis ON THE DAY of my first mammogram, I walked through the sliding glass doors of the gleaming new hospital and fought the urge to turn Continue reading
AS A GROUP, CLIMATE SCIENTISTS are reluctant to claim even the soundest projections as incontrovertible facts. The climate system is by definition exceedingly complex, and theories must always be open to Continue reading