“Today, white-nose syndrome is wiping out an entire branch of the bat family tree in America’s Southeastern forests.”
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The Venus Flytrap and the Golf Course
“The Endangered Species Act is thought of as wildlife’s ’emergency room.’ Are we doing enough to prevent species from landing there?”
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A Work of Love
“Before gay marriage was legal, illustrator John Megahan was called to work on a revolutionary secret project: bringing to life, in painstaking scientific detail, the queer lives of the animal world.”
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Where Are All The Caribou?
“For millennia Indigenous communities have relied on the far north’s caribou herds for sustenance. But as the herds dwindle, the future becomes difficult to predict.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Featuring reads from Scott Huler, Sophie Elmhirst, Lauren Smiley, Brian Payton, and Caity Weaver.
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City of Glass
“Meet the dedicated cadre of experts and volunteers working to protect birds from glass in the window-strike capital of the United States.”
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The Broken Clock
“It will no longer be enough to look back at what historically grew or lived in a place, but to anticipate, through modeling, what will be there next.”
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Flat Places
“Whenever I stand in a flat landscape, I feel myself becoming weightless, taken out of my childhood full of painful nothing.”
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The Republic of Cows
“When habitat loss is one of the biggest issues facing wild animals, why has Alaska given an uninhabited, remote island to feral cattle?”