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Dogs Are a Kiwi’s Best Friend (and Worst Enemy)

Dogs Are a Kiwi’s Best Friend (and Worst Enemy)

By Jason Bittel The kiwi is a small, flightless bird that spends most of the day underground. At night, these needle-billed, chicken-size floofs emerge to hunt insects, crayfish, seeds and fruit, but as they waddle through New Zealand’s forests, they create invisible scent trails. By morning, kiwis have often unwittingly led a predator back to […]

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    Here’s How This Artist Is Fighting Against Trump’s War on the Environment

    Here’s How This Artist Is Fighting Against Trump’s War on the Environment

    By Clara Chaisson Like so many citizens of the world, Monica Rowand spent the weeks following the presidential election feeling panicked about how the Trump administration could roll back years of hard-fought environmental progress. “I really didn’t know what I could do,” she said. But as she watched the Trump cabinet fill with climate change […]

    Stunning Portraits Put a Human Face on Climate Change

    Stunning Portraits Put a Human Face on Climate Change

    By Clara Chaisson The image of a solitary polar bear stranded on a melting ice floe is the unofficial poster child of the climate movement. But the world’s climbing temperatures are threatening more than charismatic megafauna; people’s lives and cultural heritage are at risk, too. With his portraits, artist Sean Yoro is helping to put […]

    This Statue at Standing Rock Sends a Powerful Message of Resistance

    This Statue at Standing Rock Sends a Powerful Message of Resistance

    By Clara Chaisson Since April, thousands of demonstrators have been camping out at the confluence of the Cannonball and Missouri Rivers on the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota. These peaceful water protectors—representing more than 200 Native-American tribes, plus many nonnative allies—are demanding a halt to the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, which […]