“What if this bog-standard corner of England is actually full of adventure, nature, wildness, surprises, silence, perspective — if only I bothered to go out and look?”
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One Man’s Quest to Transform the West Texas Desert
“An urban dweller ventures to far West Texas with a dream to transform a barren desert into a lush forest.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Showcasing stories from Fatima Syed, Jack Crosbie, Charlotte Higgins, Sonya Bennett-Brandt, and Camille Bromley.
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The Burgeoning Science of Search and Rescue
“By analyzing reports of people who got off-track, researchers are advancing the science of ‘lost person behavior.'”
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Ant Geopolitics
“Over the past four centuries quadrillions of ants have created a strange and turbulent global society that shadows our own.”
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Most People Are Disgusted by These Animals. These New Yorkers Are Filling Their Homes with Them.
“In NYC, many wildlife rehabbers see pests as part of a thriving urban ecosystem.”
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In the South, Developers Enter a Complicated Relationship with Endangered Bats
“Today, white-nose syndrome is wiping out an entire branch of the bat family tree in America’s Southeastern forests.”
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All Ecology Is Queer
“Nature’s networks, fluidity, and diversity are the keys to our future.”
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The Broken Clock
“It will no longer be enough to look back at what historically grew or lived in a place, but to anticipate, through modeling, what will be there next.”
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The Republic of Cows
“When habitat loss is one of the biggest issues facing wild animals, why has Alaska given an uninhabited, remote island to feral cattle?”
