How biologists are trying to ensure that wolverines, fishers, and martens have a future in Washington.
Paula MacKay
A Meditation on Ownership
1000 Words: Pamela Pitt
Zoe Loftus-Farren
Can Animals Feel?
In Review: Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves, by Frans de Waal; W. W. Norton & Company, 2019
Austin Price
GE American Chestnut — Restoration of a Beloved Species or Trojan Horse for Tree Biotechnology?
Biotech industry hopes that getting genetically engineered chestnut approved for conservation planting will soften public opposition to transgenic trees.
Rachel SmolkerAnne Petermann
With Dozens of Sick Children, Parents Took a Hard Look at Their Town’s Toxic Legacy
The carcinogen TCE has been lurking in the ground beneath Franklin, Indiana, for decades. Now families are demanding answers.
Susan Cosier
In the City, A Jungle Revives
A once-emptied woodland In the heart of Rio de Janeiro is filling up again.
Bernardo Araujo
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Summer 2019
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Students Accuse US Schools of Censoring Climate Crisis Message in Graduation Speeches
Highschoolers say authorities have barred them from reading text that warns of ‘catastrophic climate change’ for being too political.
Oliver MilmanThe Guardian
Talking Points: Summer 2019
News in Brief
Journal Staff
Florida’s Ongoing Struggle with Non-Native Water Hyacinth
The Sunshine State continues controversial spraying of herbicides like glyphosate to combat the aquatic weed.
Robert Beringer
The Potato Guardians
In the Peruvian Andes, Indigenous potato farmers are working with researchers to develop climate-smart spuds.
Camille von Kaenel
Old-Growth Logging Leaves Black Bears without Dens, Biologists Say
British Columbia protects beaver lodges and occupied migratory bird nests, but there are no regulations protecting black bear dens in most parts of the province.
Sarah Cox
Hornography
The faux-frontier world of manufactured deer and canned hunting in Texas.
