“A search for a practice of place.”
the environment
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I Tested My Blood for Microplastics. The Results Weren’t What I Expected.
What can a $150 home test kit really tell you?
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Saving the Monarch Butterfly Migration
“Their awe-inspiring migration is a cycle that repeats each year, spanning three countries.”
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A Day in the Life of an Oak Tree, from Mistle Thrush in the Morning to Mice at Midnight
“The pollen of the catkins is sweet on the proboscis of the oak-mining bee, too.”
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In Alaska, A Mystery Over Disappearing Whales
“Sam Ellis his colleagues have shown that killer whales with living grandmothers are more likely to survive than those without.”
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Tuna
“It’s an unusually precarious beginning for a life that can last forty years.”
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Humans Are Overzealous Whale Morticians
“We hastily dispose of dead whales, ignoring the ecological significance of their carcasses.”
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What Death Means to Love and What Love Means to Death
“But perhaps it’s neither here nor there how we think about death. Perhaps the work that must be done is in how we think about life.”
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The Complicated Capitalism of Plastics
“It might not seem like the right time to talk about plastics…But it is. And the world doesn’t have a moment to waste.”