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The New Face of War
By Christopher Merrill
War may be ongoing, but how we fight and what we fight over changes with the times.
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Tortuga Rising
Photographs by Neil Ever Osborne
Along the coast of Baja California, a grassroots effort to save the green sea turtle is thriving.
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Metamorphic
By Jill Sisson Quinn
Geology meets sexual fluidity on the shores of Lake Superior.
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The Discontent of Our Winter
By Sandra Steingraber
Lamenting the loss of reliable seasons, one snowflake at a time. Web extra: Author Interview.
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Barrio Walden
By Luis Alberto Urrea
Commuter-rail Transcendentalism and other routes to suburban enlightenment, yo. Web extra: Author reads this column aloud.
7 comments
The Centroid
By Jeremy Miller
From the department of curiosities: a federal statistic that tracks the balance point of the U.S. population. Web extra: author interview on the Orion podcast
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The Politics of Play
By Jay Griffiths
Recipe for a healthy childhood: fewer rules and more independence.
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Books of Ice
Sculptures by Basia Irland. Text by Kathleen Dean Moore
Rendering river water into tomes and seeds into texts, an artist practices a most graceful form of restoration. Web Extra: Audio Slide Show.
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A Moral Atmosphere
By Bill McKibben
When it comes to burning carbon, some people’s hypocrisy matters more than others’.
91 comments
Splendid Visions
By William Giraldi
A father turns to Wordsworth for advice on how to cultivate a child’s love of nature in the city.
34 comments
The Victim Liked It
By Derrick Jensen
What the psychology of abuse can tell us about climate deniers.
30 comments
Pandora’s Boxes
Heather Millar
We barely know how nanoparticles work, but they’re already lurking in our socks and our toothpaste.
45 comments
Dark Ecology
Paul Kingsnorth
Technology isn’t likely to save us, but neither is environmentalism.
320 comments
The Piccolo and the Pocket Grouse
Eric Wagner
Inside the dynamic art of animal musicology.
8 comments
The Silence of Science
Sandra Steingraber
Scientists may have the facts, but people of faith have the gumption.
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Ghosts of America
Luis Alberto Urrea
Hanging with real live phantoms in the shadow of the new dust bowl. Web audio extra: the author reads this column aloud.
10 comments
The Fisher King
By Jay Griffiths
Blindly pursuing the holy grail of profit is bringing us oceans of misery.
28 comments
State of the Species
By Charles C. Mann
Will the unprecedented success of Homo sapiens lead to an unavoidable downfall? Web audio extra: author interview.
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What Hangs on Trees
By Glenis Redmond
In the shadow of a tainted history, a poet struggles to write in the pastoral tradition. Web audio extra: author reads this essay aloud.
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Feed the Hunger
By David Sobel
Thoughts on the incredible popularity of dystopian young adult fiction.
10 comments
The Fracking of Rachel Carson
Sandra Steingraber
Fifty years ago a book changed the way we think about nature—or did it? Web extra: audio slide show
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