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In this newsletter, as in our magazine, we highlight environmental news and views from a wide range of perspectives, including those often overlooked by the mainstream press. We try to bring important stories forward — especially ones that intersect with other issues like gender, indigenous culture, human rights, or technology.

While you are here, check out some of our recent award-winning articles, many of which make the subtle but profound connections between the environment and other contemporary issues.

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Magazine

The Little Fern That Could

December 21, 2020 – Azolla once pulled trillions of tons of carbon dioxide from our atmosphere. Does this ancient, unassuming plant have more tricks up its sleeve?

Anna Gibbs

Magazine

Carbon Conundrum

December 1, 2020 – A Native Alaskan company’s promise to save its forests benefits local ecosystems, but given the zero-sum game that’s carbon offsets, it delays meaningful action on climate change.

Paul Koberstein and Jessica Applegate

Online

Arizona’s Beloved San Pedro River Is about to Meet the Rising Wall on the US-Mexico Border

July 27, 2020 – As crews begin work on a 30-foot fence across one of the Southwest’s last free-flowing rivers, conservationists worry about cost to ecosystem.

Helen Wieffering

Magazine

Holding Fast, Or Failing?

March 9, 2020 – There are dozens of confounding elements working against abalone recovery on the California coast.

Dominick Leskiw

Magazine

Dis-ease

March 5, 2020 – Documenting change and nurturing young life in a climate-uncertain world.

Kate Olson Illustration by Sonali Zohra

Magazine

Hornography

June 3, 2019 – The faux-frontier world of manufactured deer and canned hunting in Texas.

James William Gibson

Magazine

America’s Toxic Prisons

June 1, 2017 – The environmental injustices of mass incarceration

Candice Bernd Zoe Loftus-Farren Maureen Nandini Mitra

Magazine

Teflon’s Toxic Legacy

December 1, 2015 – For more than half a century DuPont hid information that a chemical it was using to make Teflon might be making people sick.

Sharon Kelly