Messengers from the Past
Priyanka Kumar’s “Messengers from the Past” is excerpted from Conversations with Birds. I. THE CROWN JEWEL OF OUR National Wildlife Refuge System, the Bosque del Apache, has been my annual pilgrimage Continue reading
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The Tracks Around Bulbjerg
The following essay, “The Tracks around Bulbjerg”, is from A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast. by Dorthe Nors. It’s exposed as a stump of tooth. Continue reading
The Human Costs of Environmental Extraction
You may know Canadian cartoonist Kate Beaton from her wildly popular, pioneering web comic Hark! A Vagrant, but before that success, she was another young person trying to pay off her Continue reading
The Grounded Age
The Anthropocene is officially grounded. No, this warning does not pertain to those marvels of science engendering time aloft by engineered finagling of lift, thrust, or flotation—which would include balloons, zeppelins, Continue reading
Raptorous
I HAVE BEEN SO hawk-addled and owl-absorbed and falcon-haunted and eagle-maniacal since I was a little kid that it was a huge shock to me to discover that there were people Continue reading