![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…
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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![La Fauna Silvestre de la Ciudad de México](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Galleries/Mexico City's Wildlife/Thumbnail_2.69b940c5.jpg)
by Tamara Blazquez Haik
En la Ciudad de México existen aproximadamente 2254 especies silvestres, lo que incluye insectos y otros artrópodos, anfibios, reptiles, aves y mamíferos.
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by Tamara Blazquez Haik
Mexico City is home to approximately 2,254 wildlife species including insects and other arthropods, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.
Read more![Beach Mornings](/assets/image-cache/4%20DSC09973.a1ec2aed.jpg)
by Michael Washburn
Here on my sliver of Covid-cleared beach, among the tracks of crabs and the prints of plovers and scattered scraps of human carelessness, a larger story of wonder and waste is opening. It’s one we live…
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…
Read more![Red Wolves: Hanging in the Balance](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Voices/Red Wolves/Thumbnail.9442d9f0.jpg)
by Malee Baker Oot
Gravel crackles under my tires and horseflies ping off the windows as I slow to a stop beside a mound of black bear scat, near the northeastern edge of North Carolina’s 152,000-acre Alligator River National…
Read more![“May I Ask What You Are Doing?”](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Voices/May I Ask What You're Doing/Thumbnail.9442d9f0.jpg)
by Joe Gray
Be you a beetle enthusiast who’s inseparable from your sweeping net, a petal-counting wildflower aficionado, or a lichen lover prone to presenting (with nose to the ground) their posterior anteriorly,…
Read more![Evidence of Hope](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Galleries/Evidence of Hope/Thumbnail3.9e7b9a1e.jpg)
by Tasha Goldberg
Truth: we are facing global challenges on an unprecedented scale. As a seasoned reporter on United Nations negotiations in sustainable development, I was clear that now more than ever, there is a need…
Read more![Saving the Behemoth of the Ice: The Polar Bear](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Galleries/Saving the Behemoth of the Ice/Thumbnail.abec955d.jpg)
by Cyril Christo
With the melting of the world’s ice, the future of the greatest land predator on earth — the polar bear — is very much in jeopardy.
Read more![Searching Forgotten Wetlands for the Mountain Chorus Frog](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Voices/Searching Forgotten/Thumbnail.0d8f0bfe.jpg)
by Wally Smith
Those three words are on my mind as I slosh around in a wetland behind the lodge at Virginia's Breaks Interstate Park. The pool isn't much, taking up no more than thirty square feet and its water only…
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