Books Summer ’16: Ten More You’ll Like
Award-winning journalists and experts – Sebastian Junger, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Jennifer Ackerman– are among the authors we’ve selected for Ten More Books you’ll like this summer. This selection of 10 looks […]
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Books Summer ’16: Ten You’ll Like
Welcome Summer –– and the books that beckon us to sit in a comfortable chair, dream, explore other places and other worlds. This month’s selection is the first of several […]
Friday Roundup Apr 29: Ches Bay, Space Colony, Hummingbirds, Feeding Africa
Our stories this week: Chesapeake Bay’s good news, Kaplana –a NASA space colony, Howard Buffett’s “brown revolution” to feed Africa, bison wins new status Chesapeake Bay’s Good News The Chesapeake […]
Goldman Environmental Prize 2016
The 2016 Goldman Environmental Prize awards announced April 18 in San Francisco were tinged with the sadness that 2015 award winner Berta Cáceres had been assassinated only weeks before in Honduras. This […]
NOVA: Citizen Science at its best
NOVA, the 42- year- old PBS television series, is citizen science’s best friend – thoughtful, balanced, free of charge, and available to millions of people via several media platforms. That […]
Frans de Waal: Primates are us!
“What could be more dignified than primates who use their natural gifts to build a humane society?” ( Frans de Waal) Frans de Waal is a celebrated primatologist who manages to […]
Earth Heroes
Every day for the next two weeks, we are going to introduce you to men, women, indigenous groups, doctors, scientists, broadcasters, rangers and fearless activists who stand for the planet. […]
Earth Week Heroes Coming Up
Being an environmental hero can mean putting your life on the line, taking risks that most of us fear (but admire) and getting things accomplished against the odds. Next week, […]
Friday Roundup: Good News! Mar 26
Welcome Spring 2016: This week we are only reporting good news– eagles, ravens, monarch butterflies, orcas, the Chesapeake Bay, Amazon funding, World Happiness Report. Whoopee! World Happiness Report: Just released, […]
Our coming lineup: art, science, nature
Our planet is a complex place — ancient places and traditions imperiled by war, land grabs, urbanization, changing values, changing climate. Our upcoming articles this winter and spring demonstrate how much […]
