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In Defense of the Web of Life

IN A TIME-HONORED EXERCISE at nature day camps, a naturalist asks each child to play the role of an animal or plant, anything from human to hawk to lichen. The children Continue reading

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Limestone Cowboy

IN NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA, more than a century of intense mineral extraction has left behind well over 100,000 acres of historic, mostly abandoned mine lands. Robert Hughes believes there was a kind Continue reading

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When Green Is Brown

LONDON. CAIRO. AUSTIN. Three great cities that offer world-class birdwatching — at the municipal sewage lagoons. But the facility at Hornsby Bend in Austin is more than a birding site. In Continue reading