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The Atlantic; cougarsan / Shutterstock How to Be a Good Person Without Annoying Everyone
There’s a simple trick to provoking better behavior, without seeming like a self-righteous jerk.
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Wikimedia Detective Fiction Has Nothing on This Victorian-Science Murder Mystery
William Saville-Kent was a pioneering coral photographer. Was he also hiding a grisly secret?
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George Rinhart / Getty / Edward Curtis / … Don’t Cancel John Muir
But don’t excuse him either.
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AP Photo / Kirsty Wigglesworth Why Dodo Bones Are Extra Scarce
In nearly a century, only twice have dodo remains come up for auction.
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Lidia Tomashevskaya The Most Political Animal
Even in one of the world’s richest countries, humans have a hard time coexisting with wolves.
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Paper engineering © Shawn Sheehy / Candlewick Press What Might Animals Look Like Thousands of Years From Now?
A new pop-up book imagines how Chicago’s ecosystem might evolve in a world with fewer humans.
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Exposure Labs Coral Sex Could Help Rebuild Reefs
For these vulnerable animals, survival may take more than just budding.
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Jamie Hall Fear of Humans Is Making Animals Around the World Go Nocturnal
Even non-threatening activities like hiking are changing creatures’ sleep cycles.
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Ping Zhu How I Talk to My Daughter About Climate Change
As a reporter covering the environment, I'm all too aware of what the next 50 years could hold. As a 9-year-old, she's not—and for now, she wants to stay that way.
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Lev Savitskiy / Getty Why Are Some Frogs Surviving a Global Epidemic?
A killer fungus could be changing. Or the frogs themselves could be evolving.
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Eddie Keogh / Reuters Why Everyone Should Learn About Western Civilization
Students are protesting Reed College’s foundational humanities curriculum. What they may be missing is that core texts are just a starting point.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters How Science Can Survive Hostile Governments
Scientists have a history of using political attacks to galvanize support for reform.
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Ian Webster / Courtesy of Sarah Bergmann Tiny Pollinators Need Wildlife Corridors Too
Bison aren’t the only animals that roam.
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Wikimedia Commons The Family of Surgeons That Got Famous by Secretly Using Forceps
The metal tools have saved many lives since the 1500s, but they’ve also come to reflect slow progress in women’s health care.
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David Gray / Reuters Media Coverage of a Mammal Extinction Missed the Point
While climate change didn’t help, human inaction ultimately allowed the species to die.
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Becky Bohrer / AP Awe Isn't Necessarily Good for You
Its benefits might be a form of privilege.
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Courtesy of Lauren Oakes The Sound of Climate Change
A musician translated the changing ecology of a forest into song.
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Vladimir Pushkarev / Reuters What 'Frankenstein' Says About Climate Change
The 200-year-old novel is a testament to the innovation that can spring from environmental disaster.
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Runoff from old mines poisons Colorado’s rivers. Why are enviro groups trying to stop locals from cleaning them up?
