![COP26 Dispatch: One Woman’s Experience](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Dispatch/COP26 Dispatch/Thumbnail.0baa72cb.jpg)
by Amelia Clarke
Last year I was fortunate to journey to Glasgow, Scotland, for the UN’s 26th Annual Conference of Parties (COP26). The landmark event brings together leaders from almost every country to negotiate climate…
Read more![The Passing of Courage: An Homage to E.O. Wilson and Thomas Lovejoy](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Poetry/The Passing of Courage/Thumbnail.9d8087c9.jpg)
by Joel I. Cohen
What was inevitable came far too quickly, when for Wilson and Lovejoy, their time on earth ceased, as their days collapsed, falling silently on the snowcapped peaks made tall by their own achievements.
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by Devin Reese
I got my feet wet in fieldwork as an intern for the Conservancy of Southwest Florida in the 1980s. Literally. My feet got wet when my supervisor, biologist Dave Addison, unflappably led me through the…
Read more![Elephant Depression](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Poetry/Elephant Depression/Thumbnail.d7bf5e88.jpg)
by Tara Waters Lumpkin
"Depression is biological," The experts say. "Feel good! Take Prozac,
Read more![Fieldwork in Namibia](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Poetry/Fieldwork in Namibia/Thumbnail.5c8cf848.jpg)
by Tara Waters Lumpkin
In old Africa: Dust stirred by bare feet and lions’ paws . . . Gone now.
Read more![An excerpt from the cli-fi novel Weather Menders](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Fiction/An excerpt from the cli-fi novel/Thumbnail.9e8bb0dd.jpg)
by Debra Denker
I conceived Weather Menders during a very hot summer visit to the UK in 2013. I had been looking forward to escaping the heat that in recent years has become characteristic of Santa Fe summers by going…
Read more![Isolation Is Slow Torture: A Macaw Conservationist in Costa Rica](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Feature/Isolation Is Slow Torture/Thumbnail.5ac4318a.jpg)
by Merlin Pratsch
“In the minutes before sunrise on the edge of the Corcovado, a troop of howler monkeys announces the twilight transition from night to day, reminding us that communication is the key to successful communities…
Read more![Environmental Leadership: A Conversation with Paul Relis](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Interviews and Reviews/Environmental Leadership/Thumbnail.849e9adc.jpg)
by Phillip Gibbs
There are many books about environmental issues and the environmental movement, but what really sets Out of the Wasteland: Stories from the Environmental Frontier apart is that it both parallels the development…
Read more![Seeking Solace on Horseback: Riding Keeps Me Sane During Pandemic](/assets/image-cache/images/features/Seeking Solace/Thumbnail.53f99fe1.jpg)
by Debra Denker
On the first day of autumn, I’m riding through a changing forest — tall, deep green ponderosas interspersed with the butter-gold of aspens, and shrubs ranging from pale crimson to deep russet to coral…
Read more![Nurtured by Nature in a Pandemic](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Voices/Nurtured by Nature/Thumbnail.0d8f0bfe.jpg)
by Barri W. Sanders
As of July 2020, eight out of ten COVID-19 deaths in the US were people 65 or older. I’m 81 years old.
Read more![The Durrell Effect: How Animals Define Humanity](/assets/image-cache/stick-insect-scorpion-pxby-resized.0c05f31a.jpg)
by Elliot Connor
Jane Goodall speaks of her dog Rusty as her greatest teacher; Gerald Durrell wrote of his dog Roger as his constant companion. Although I don’t have a dog, I do have a menagerie of other animals that inspire…
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