![Drowning in Sound: Researching Overlooked Aquatic Noise Pollution](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Voices/Drowning in Sound/Thumbnail.96d7fad2.jpg)
by Amelia Clarke
Anyone fortunate enough to dive on a healthy coral reef will immediately notice the array of noises created by its inhabitants. Pops, crackles, crunches, chirps, hums and snaps produce a vibrant cacophony…
Read more![Santa Fe Critter Cam Gallery](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Galleries/Santa Fe Critter Cam Gallery/Thumbnail.e8848ad9.jpg)
by Debra Denker
Great critter cam photos are a matter of luck rather than photographic skill — although a little bit of editing magic can turn a mediocre photo into a great one.
Read more![Mud, Sweat and Cheers: Restoring Bald Cypress Forests in Louisiana](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Voices/Mud, Sweat and Cheers/Thumbnail.d7472253.jpg)
by Taylor Marshall
You can break a sweat in Louisiana without moving — just standing outside in the thick of the humidity is enough. If you’re moving, it’s not even a matter of minutes before you are covered in sweat. Mix…
Read more![What Pesticides Showed Me About Protecting Our Future](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Voices/What Pesticides Showed Me/Thumbnail.9c245621.jpg)
by Tanvi Dutta Gupta
In the spring of 2020, as my planned summer of glorious sunshine-y fieldwork disintegrated under the sudden and crushing weight of a global pandemic, I flew home to Singapore. An ocean away from Stanford…
Read more![An excerpt from the autobiographical novel Sunset in Wajir](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Fiction/Sunset in Wajir/Thumbnail.a2c2a657.jpg)
by Jack Meyers
From 1968 to 1970, I was in the Peace Corps. First in Somalia and then, after a military coup there, in Kenya. The experiences I had led me to my graduate degree in agricultural economics and subsequent…
Read more![An excerpt from the novel Deception at the Diamond D Ranch](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Fiction/Deception at the Diamond D Ranch/Thumbnail.c24114d0.jpg)
by G.R. Stahl
Deception at the Diamond D Ranch is a western mystery published by Coffeetown Press, an imprint of Epicenter Press, in April 2022. This chapter digs into two characters’ relationships with the land and…
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![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![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.
Read more![Mexico City’s Wildlife](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Galleries/Mexico City's Wildlife/Thumbnail.69b940c5.jpg)
by Tamara Blazquez Haik
Mexico City is home to approximately 2,254 wildlife species including insects and other arthropods, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.
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