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The US National Parks, what Wallace Stegner called America’s “best idea,” are under siege. Written by the Jarvis brothers—Jonathan, a former ranger, biologist, and National
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In The Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste into Wealth and Health, journalist Lina Zeldovich reveals how human excrement can be
The North Atlantic right whale is a species so endangered that there are likely more researchers in the world studying them than there are individual
We are honored to count Dipesh Chakrabarty, the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University
For well over a century, the Marine Biological Laboratory has been a nexus of scientific discovery, a site where scientists and students from around the
As news of earthquake swarms in Puerto Rico, bushfires in Australia, volcanic eruptions in New Zealand, and the calamitous impacts of climate change fills the
Although Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) was one of the most famous scientists in the world at the time of his death at the age of
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