![Learning about Conservation in Rwanda](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Voices/Learning about Conservation /20.9442d9f0.jpg)
by Niyonkuru (Chris) Benjamin
Rwanda is known as the country of a thousand hills, and many of those hills are found in designated protected areas or parks. Among the forests, each area has unique animals, including mountain gorillas,…
Read more![Environmental Justice and Hog Farming in North Carolina](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Feature/Environmental Justice and Hog Farming/Photo%201-480x400.d660d21d.jpg)
by Jaime Gordon
Duke Law professor Michelle Nowlin is making waves in North Carolina’s hog industry. Now a Supervising Attorney at Duke’s Environmental Law and Policy Clinic, Nowlin started her work in the mid 90s at…
Read more![Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Galleries/Grand Bay National Estuarine/Grand%2025-400x400.abec955d.jpg)
by Erika Zambello
Established in 1999, the Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (GB NERR) now stretches across 18,000 acres. In addition to the estuary’s salt marshes, the reserve also covers rare pine savannas,…
Read more![Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Galleries/Rookery Bay National Estuarine/RB%2056-400x400.07b64810.jpg)
by Erika Zambello
As part of an ongoing project, Erika Zambello is visiting all National Estuarine Research Reserves in the continental United States. Established by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),…
Read more![Biodiversity on Organic Farms in Telangana, India](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Feature/Biodiversity on Organic Farms/Thumbnail.eec234ee.jpg)
by Andrew Flachs
Most commercial agriculture around the world comes in the form of monocultures, where whole fields are devoted to a single plant. Monocultures are stark landscapes, built around the logic of factories…
Read more![Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Galleries/Weeks Bay Reserve/WeeksBayNationalReserve-400x400%20.abec955d.jpg)
by Erika Zambello
Made up of over 6,000 acres along the coast of Alabama, the Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research is one of 28 sites around the country that are “protected for long-term research, water-quality monitoring,…
Read more![Biodiversity of the Dry Tortugas](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Galleries/Biodiversity of the Dry Tortugas/PREVIEW%20PHOTO_CF8T6800.69b940c5.jpg)
by BinBin Li
I visited Dry Tortugas National Park in 2013 and 2015 as part of a field class taught by Dr. Stuart Pimm at Duke University. Located 68 miles west of Key West, this 100 square mile national park is mostly…
Read more![Food, Culture and Conservation](/assets/image-cache/images/galleries/ODonnell/Wild%20Rapberries%20New%20Mexico.bc6f3c82.jpg)
by Jim O’Donnell
In this stunning photo gallery, photographer Jim O’Donnell explores the connections between food and our natural environment. With these images, he illustrates the ways in which our food system is fragile…
Read more![Pandora’s Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization](/assets/image-cache/images/features/Book Reviews/Pandoras Seed/Pandoras%20Seed%20Photo%201.1d00087f.jpg)
by Julia Osterman
In this stirring study of how civilization has strained the human relationship with the natural world, author Spencer Wells examines issues such as obesity, global warming, the rise of mental illness,…
Read more![Student of the Horse](/assets/image-cache/images/galleries/student_of the_horse/12Student-of-the-Horse.eac2d2a4.jpg)
by Susan Ramsey
"I'm not a horse whisperer. I am a student of the horse. Our body language becomes the curious discourse of give and take, of pressure and release, direct and indirect -- a dance if you will," explained.…
Read more![Philippine Marine Life](/assets/image-cache/images/galleries/philippine_marine_life/Apo%20Island%20Kan-Uran%20Dive%20033.bc6f3c82.jpg)
by Amy Carfagno
Scuba diver Brian Kramer photographed some of the vast marine life in the 7,107 islands of the Philippines. The islands of the Philippines lie within the coral triangle, an area that encompasses more than…
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