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To stand before a redwood is to remove yourself from the context of space and time as experienced by human beings. Crane your neck up as...

Monterey Bay in the 1930s stood at the nadir of its ecological fortunes, having sustained every imaginable indignity that mankind’s...

There are people to whom it is given to wait alone on humanity's dark edge and stand against all the worst of our collective impulses: ...

One of the first things that we teach high school students about statistics is the relative worthlessness of convenience-type surveying -...

A mother elephant staggers forward, arrows protruding from her flank and legs, poison coursing through her blood that is attacking her...

As a rule, our favorite flavors of scientist are the theoretical and experimental – we tend to like them either sitting in a chair...

Think back to your last zoo trip. More likely than not, most of the larger animals were contained in open air facilities, with features...

Every morning we wake up to a feast of assumptions. We assume that the place our sewage gets dumped is not the same place our drinking...

Four short decades ago, the prevailing wisdom among forestry officials was the “Free To Grow” model by which, when a forest was clear cut...

Caste. Race. Gender. These were the three categories that, in early twentieth century Madras, combined to determine the boundaries of...